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2022 年考研精选英语阅读模拟题 TEXT 1 Is your promotion really necessary? Many workers focus their hopes on climbing the hierarchy of their organisations. The prospect of higher pay helps explain their ambition, but so does the greater status that comes with each successive title. This scramble can often end in disappointment. The Peter principle, developed by Laurence Peter for a book published in 1969, states that workers get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. It makes perfect sense. If you are good at your job, you rise up the career ladder. Eventually, there will be a job you are not good at and at that point your career will stall. The logical corollary is that any senior staffmemberswhohavebeen intheir jobforanextendedperiodare incompetent. There isanotherproblemwith chasingthepromotion chimera.A recentstudyfoundthat companieshave a strong tendency to promote the best sales people. Convincing others tobuy goodsand services isa useful skill, requiring charisma andpersistence.But, as the authors of the study point out, these are not the same capabilities as the strategic planning and administrative competence needed to lead a sales team. Theresearchthenlookedatwhathappenedafterthesesuper-salespeoplewerepromoted. Their previous sales performance was actually a negative indicator of managerial success. The sales growth of workers assigned to the star sellerswas 7.5 percentage points lower than for those whose managers were previously weaker performers. Scott Adams, the cartoonist, described this problem in his book, “The Dilbert Principle”. In hisworld, the least competent people get promoted because these are the people you don’t want to do the actual work. It is foolish to promote the best salesperson or computer programmer to a management role, since the company will then be deprived of unique skills. Bartleby (a character in an English novel) is not an expert at climbing the greasy pole. In part, that is because he ha