“Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.”
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Famous Laurence J. Peter Quotes
“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
“Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.”
“If at first you don't succeed, you may be at your level of incompetence already.”
“In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.”
Source: The Peter Principle
“Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create.”
Source: Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times