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1/ it’s not rational to promote someone competent at their tasks

2/ there are either ways to reward than promote to a higher level in the management pyramid

Hence it's not rational for an employee who wants to get a promotion to be competent at their work.

I've seen this happen. Start pushing off the work of the old job and doing the new job before the promotion.

And that's why the GP's #2 is so important.

Organizations where it exists tend to work much better than the ones where it doesn't.