No One Gets To See The Wizard!

No doubt you ’ve heard of the “Peter Principle”; it’s been around for quite a while. Dr. Laurence J. Peter is a former professor who published a satirical book based around his theory that " In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence, " and that " In time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. " Or, basically: We do a job well, we ' re promoted. We do that job well, we ' re promoted again. Eventually, we rise to a position that we can no longer do well -- our level of incompetence. There, we either stagnate, revert back to a lower position, or get fired.I have met some absolutely brilliant people in the years I have been dabbling in PACS. Most of these came from academic facilities and have significantly helped the PACS “movement”. Most of the names you would recognize so at the risk of inadvertently leaving someone out I’m not naming them…but you know who they are. There have even been a few PACS laureates outside academia, (some of them work for vendors!!) While many individuals who had vendors jobs staye d with PACS, few of those stayed with the same vendor or in the same position for a long time. The field of such PACS players is rather small, and almost incestuous; the expert who worked for Company A at the time of last year’s RSNA will be front and center in Company B’s booth this year. I’m sure they all had a new position already lined up before they left the curre...
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