The Peter Principle in Practice
Before I get to my real entry, I'd like to welcome Michael Manning to my blog. Today was the first time he commented. We have a number of mutual friends in the blogosphere--Deni, Denny, LisaB, Bud, etc. Welcome, Michael! Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I've returned your link favor, and linked to your blog.
(And now we return you to your regularly scheduled programming . . .)
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Our company had a big powwow this morning with my CEO's boss in corporate making an announcement about personnel changes. Our CEO has been promoted to a corporate job, with details to be announced next week. Torpedo Tits really, really, wanted the CEO job. She didn't get it. The CEO of two sister companies was handed the CEO job at ours as well, making him CEO of three companies within the same corporate division.
This is the Peter Principle at work. Our former CEO was fairly competent as the head of a company with less than 200 employees globally, but probably will be incompetent at his job in the huge parent corporation. I suspect Torpedo Tits has already been promoted to her own level of incompetence, and thus will rise no further within the organization. She was fine when she was the GM of the dinky Toronto office, but is seriously dangerous in her current position as the head of North American sales.
The new CEO was flown in from Chicago for this meeting, and was trotted around afterward to meet all of us who rank high enough to have window offices--i.e. anyone VP and higher. I like the guy. He apologized in advance if he forgets my name. Hell, if he remembers me as "the lady with all those plants on her windowsill," or "the lady in the Western fringe jacket at the meeting," I'm doing well. He's based in Schaumburg, so he has met very few of us before today. Told him I'd answer to "Hey-- you!" as long as he didn't look like he was talking into a cell phone. He laughed.
Enough drivel for one evening. Have a great weekend, everyone!
(And now we return you to your regularly scheduled programming . . .)
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Our company had a big powwow this morning with my CEO's boss in corporate making an announcement about personnel changes. Our CEO has been promoted to a corporate job, with details to be announced next week. Torpedo Tits really, really, wanted the CEO job. She didn't get it. The CEO of two sister companies was handed the CEO job at ours as well, making him CEO of three companies within the same corporate division.
This is the Peter Principle at work. Our former CEO was fairly competent as the head of a company with less than 200 employees globally, but probably will be incompetent at his job in the huge parent corporation. I suspect Torpedo Tits has already been promoted to her own level of incompetence, and thus will rise no further within the organization. She was fine when she was the GM of the dinky Toronto office, but is seriously dangerous in her current position as the head of North American sales.
The new CEO was flown in from Chicago for this meeting, and was trotted around afterward to meet all of us who rank high enough to have window offices--i.e. anyone VP and higher. I like the guy. He apologized in advance if he forgets my name. Hell, if he remembers me as "the lady with all those plants on her windowsill," or "the lady in the Western fringe jacket at the meeting," I'm doing well. He's based in Schaumburg, so he has met very few of us before today. Told him I'd answer to "Hey-- you!" as long as he didn't look like he was talking into a cell phone. He laughed.
Enough drivel for one evening. Have a great weekend, everyone!
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