Peter Principle revisited, revisited (draft)

I love the peter principle revisited.

• Arxiv paper
• 2010 Management ig-nobel prize

I revisited it myself.

• my revisit on slideshare

It is possible to "build an organization with higher levels of 'talent' (whatever that means) and end up with lower organizational performance."  I've tried to tell folks, especially in organizational development, about this result but they do not believe me.

Here is an analogous result from other areas:

• (traffic modeling) http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/files/papers/others/2005/braess2005a.pdf
• (several locations) http://phys.org/news/2015-05-maths-congestionsprings-traffic.html
• (irrational traffic) http://phys.org/news/2015-02-traffic-choice-behaviour.html

It turns out that you can build a wider street, for more traffic transport, and end up moving less people.  It also turns out that humans are irrational in predictable ways.