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A common example of this is in any technical field where an especially good engineer may be promoted to lead engineer and then made a supervisor. Now, his strongest skillset is going unused—supervisors don't get to engineer directly—and he struggles to get by using his less developed management skills.
The name comes from written by book by Raymond Hull, but shared author credit and titled the book after [[Neologism|hierarchiologist]] [[Trope Namer|Dr. Laurence J. Peter]] (who did the research), which is about this principle and discusses it in about twelve chapters worth of detail.
A common cause of the [[Pointy-Haired Boss]] and [[Modern Major-General]]. The [[Career-Building Blunder]] is one method of defying this trope. Compare and contrast [[Brain Drain]].
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