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Laurence J. Peter was a renowned author and psychologist, best known for his book 'The Peter Principle'. This book introduced the Peter Principle, which states that in a hierarchy, every employee will eventually be promoted to a position they are unable to handle.

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“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”

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“The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.”

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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”

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“Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .”

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Book:THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG

Source: THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG

“In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.”

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Book:The Peter Principle

Source: The Peter Principle

About the Author

Born: September 16, 1919
Died: January 12, 1990
Known for: Author
Quotes: 142

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