Lessons for Pools
PROMOTION. Not likely a word any local football supporter is likely to hear this year, but a word frequently used in the world of business and commerce.
In a book published by Dr L J Peter and R Hull in 1969 entitled The Peter Principle, they believe that in a hierarchy "every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence".
I am sure many readers will recognise this statement, especially those interested in the beautiful game.
What this basically means is that sooner or later an employee is promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent.
They remain in that position unable to earn further promotions. They tread water waiting for retirement or the sack.
Now if we equate that, for example, to the beautiful game of football, sooner or later a football club, player or even a manager reaches a point when either they have achieved everything the game has to offer or they reach a point when they are unable to move forward and upward.
Is this the case you might ask with your local football team?
You may have enjoyed promotion to a higher division, you have been to the play-offs, and you even have plans to modernise your stadium.
But this season you have reached an impasse and are struggling not only to maintain the heights you have attained but are facing the relegation trap door, as is the case with Darlington, possibly Sunderland and others closer to home.
Is this a time when the "business", and a football club is a business, when the shareholders in the business take the opportunity to seek employees who will take the business to the next level?
John Riddle,
Teesdale Avenue,
Hartlepool.
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Friday 10 February 2012
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