Principles of corporate america
Caveat: These principles are - for the most part - satirical. Do not read too much into it...
Peter Principle: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Similar observations on incompetence can be found in the Dilbert cartoon series, the movie Office Space, and the television show The Office."
Software Peter Principle: "Describes a dying project which has little by little become too complex to be understood even by its own developers."
Dilbert Prinicple: "Satirical observation stating that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to management (generally middle management), in order to limit the amount of damage they're capable of doing."
Parkinson's Law: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" or "work expands to fill the time available."
Negative Selection (politics): "The person on the top of the hierarchy, wishing to remain in power forever, chooses his associates with the prime criterion of incompetence - they must not be competent enough to remove him from power. The associates do the same with those below them in the hierarchy, and the hierarchy is progressively filled with more and more incompetent people."