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What exactly means “Center of Excellence”? Whatever we want it to mean. We should be brimming with excellence by nightfall. Centers of excellence create more excellence. Evidence? None.

Is experience exactly the same as pessimism?

I’m sure you have heard about Peter’s principle, if not the name then the principle: In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. and the corollary: In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. But what struck me recently is that I didn’t know how old this principle was. It was first published in 1969!