Examples:

1. Confirmation bias can cause bosses to view people that they have invested a lot of time or energy into in a more favourable light.

Insights:

1. Confirmation bias can lead to poor decisions and judgement, especially in the workplace.

Insights:

1. Employees can find ways to be creatively incompetent - and avoid being promoted to positions where they are incompetent.

References:

1. Dr. Laurence Peter popularised this principle in the 1960s and suggested that by choosing to appear incompetent at things irrelevant to current jobs, employees can make management believe that they have reached their level of incompetence.