Who said “a person will rise to their level of incompetence?”?
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For many, the Peter Principle (PP) was a revelation. For me too. I was, I realised, not, after all, the unique victim of bloody minded destiny. And neither are you. Our positions of oppression were, and are, produced by a natural law of the universe. Yes indeed. Someone had at last explained why it is that so many people in positions of authority seem to be incompetent. They are. In case you missed this gem of insight, let me recap. \n\nThe Peter Principle states that - \n\nIn a mature bureaucracy people are promoted to their own level of incompetence. \n\nWhen a person, working in a hierarchical bureaucracy, does his or her task competently, he or she will gain promotion to a higher post which is more demanding. If the person finds this new task beyond his or her capabilities he or she will then perform that task incompetently. No further promotion will be gained and the person will, from that moment on, be stuck in that post. The PP has about it the simple elegance of Darwin's theory of evolution. When it is explained, you see that it must be so and you wonder who you didn't think of it yourself. And yet ... it contains an insidious flaw. \n\nDeficiencies of the Peter Principle.\n\n(1) When a person is promoted (the promotEE), there has to be another person (the promotER) who does the promoting. The Peter Principle depends crucially upon the promoter's job being performed competently. The promoter must be able to distinguish competence from incompetence in candidates for promotion. So what happens if the promoter has already reached his or her level of incompetence? And there are other sources of error in the Peter Principle -\n\n(2) PP contains a hidden assumption that the difficulty of a task, at any level in a hierarchy, increases with increasing level. And we all know that that is not always true. The hardest task in any hierarchy is the one YOU are doing. Everyone else is getting a ride on your back especially the person who is just one level above you. \n\n(3) PP also assumes that there is only one kind of difficulty and only one kind of competence. Again not true. As predicted by the PP the best football players do not always make good managers but is it not also true that some of the best managers were indifferent players. Further - \n\n(4) PP predicts that when a person reaches their incompetence level they will be only marginally incompetent. The theory does not begin to explain the ubiquitous presence of super-incompetence. How, for example, can it explain how John Major became the British Prime Minister when he had already reached his incompetence level when he was a trainee bank clerk? So there has to be more. The PP may be a valuable insight, it may explain why so many people in high places are incompetent, but it not why they are so abysmally incompetent.
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IF you think you will fail and succeed, whoich have you done?  \n\nTo quote Danny Devito from the Rainmaker.\n\n"I walked in with nothing, worse case, I walk out with nothing."\n\nOf course Matt Damon replies with "How about your dignity?"
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incompetent means "lacking in the necessary requirements"
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"It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense." ~Mark Twain\n\n"There is only one thing about which I am certain, and that is that there is very little which one can be certain."  ~W. Somerset Maugham\n\n"Education is the discovery of our own ignorance."  ~Wil Durant\n\n"Courage means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die."  ~ G. K. Chesterton
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I am not sure of the meaning of "incompetence dominance" as you state it here.  All searches on Yahoo! for this phrase point back to this question. =)\n\nHowever, I think maybe what you're looking for might be demonstrated through the Peter Principle which states:\nIn a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.\n\nIf you examine Murphy's Law and its corollaries you find a lot of similar ideas.
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"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate"\n......(by --dont remember)\n\n"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something"\n......Plato \n\n"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;\nThe unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.\nTherefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man"\n......George Bernard Shaw\n\n"Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God"\n......Swami Vivekananda\n\n\nhope u like them........good day
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"Be careful who you pretend to be, because you day you just might loose who you really are"\n\n-ME
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Hunter S. Thompson. The entire quote is: 'Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!"' \n\nHope I helped!!
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Oh, one of those people who knows how wonderfully, beautifully amazing I am  :-)   Hey, don't laugh.  They said it, not me!\n.... maybe the guy who said, "You are everything that everyone wants to be, but is too afraid."  That sounds like a pretty good intro
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if one does not know history, it is doomed to repeat itself....can't think of who said that quote.
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One of the biggest was foretold by Nostradamus in one of his quatrains in which he predicted:\n\n" In the new world (United States of America), the village Idiot shall step forward to lead the people."\n\nDarryl S.
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Someone who predicts the future (sometimes claiming to have knowledge from a special talent or gift).
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Benjamin Franklin:\n\n"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."\n\nIt's one of my all-time favorite quotes!\n\n.
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either a genius or a moron...depending on direction
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If you do not believe in yourself, how will anyone else believe in you?\n\n- Jonathan Wichmann
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This is a man who oversaw the failure of a number of very substantial businesses, and now of a government.  Do you think he knows how to be "embarrased"?  Three days before he said "staying the course" meant making adjustments & replacing Rummy, he said that "staying the course" meant Rummy was there for the "duration"...
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"I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up."\n\n-Tom Lehrer