Reverse Peter Principle

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Adam Bryant, How to Practice the Reverse Peter Principle. New York Times, Mar 4, 2012 (interview with Tracy Dolgin; in the Sunday column Corner Office, about management skills)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/0 ... eter-principle.html
("Most people start out as doers * * * The reason they usually get promoted is not because someone innately thought that the person would make a great manager.  They get promoted because they were a great doer. * * * The company was small enough so that if I found the best doers of every single critical function and convinced them to come to the YES Network to manage less and do more")

Note: Peter Principle
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
(formulated by Dr Laurence J Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle; section 4 Impact on popular culture)