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Re: the Peter Principle and being promoted beyond your level of competence. That happened to me.
More or less against my will, I found myself promoted into charge of a group whose work I neither understood or was interested in. However, you can still be a less-than-shitty boss under those circumstances if you identify the top workers and don't get in the way of them working out the problems on their own. I made it my job to interface/run interference for the group with even more clueless upper management, negotiate for the resources that they told me they needed, and make sure they'd configured themselves to get all assigned tasks (all our tasks and projects were assigned from On High) in a timely manner. They did a great job, until half of us were laid off, including me.
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