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Satisfaction March 6, 2011

From Wikipedia: the Motivation-Hygiene theory, which says job satisfaction comes from personal growth, challenging work, and responsibility, while dissatisfaction is governed by a completely separate set of factors: salary, status, company policy among them, capable of making you unhappy but not of making you happy.

Also: the well-worn chestnut, “Everyone rises to the level of his incompetence,” has a name- the Peter Principle. The Up or Out policy, practiced by the US Military and most law firms, is an attempt to combat the Peter Principle.