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Lost generation | Andrew Hankinson | Money | The Observer. Last week a man in the jobcentre handed me a letter summoning me to a Back to Work session – come on! Back to work! Break's over! A week later, I sit on a blue settee and wait to be called into a meeting room. A man with a goatee beard and ponytail sits on the blue settee opposite. He's reading a book. To my left is another man on another blue settee, reading a newspaper. I flick through some notes. "We can also help with business plans," a man in a beige suit adds, "though whether you'd be thinking of that in this climate, I don't know. " The claimant who arrived late opens a bottle of Coke and poses a theoretical question about what would happen if he had worked for McDonald's and quit after three weeks because he didn't like it.

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Video - Personal Finance and Business Videos - Kiplinger.com - Job Interviews. Why Incompetence Spreads through Big Organizations. There’s a paradox at the heart of most Western organizations. The people who perform best at one level of an organization tend to be promoted on the premise that they will also be competent at another level within the organization. I imagine that most readers will have had personal experience at the way that this hypothesis fails in practice. In 1969, a Canadian psychologist named Laurence Peter encapsulated this behavior in a rule that has since become known as Peter’s Principle. Here it is: “All new members in a hierarchical organization climb the hierarchy until they reach their level of maximum incompetence.” That’s not as unfair as it sounds, say Alessandro Pluchino and buddies from Universita di Catania, who have modeled this behavior using an agent-based system for the first time. The problem is that common sense often fools us. Now Pluchino and co have simulated this practice with an agent-based model for the first time.

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