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<p><p>this Book Caused A Storm When First Published In 1969, Battering Up The Bestseller List To #1, Charming Readers From Topeka To Timbuktu, And Finally, Brilliantly, Blessedly Giving The World An Answer To A Question That Nags Us All: Why Is Incompetence So Maddeningly Rampant And So Vexingly Triumphant? The Book And The Phrase It Defined Are Now Considered Comedic-yet-classic Cornerstones Of Organizational Thought, And In Honor Of The Book's Fortieth Anniversary, Robert I. Sutton Has Written A Foreword Introducing The Book To A New Generation Of Readers. <p>the Peter Principle, The Eponymous Law Laurence Peter Coined, Explains That In A Hierarchy, Every Employee Tends To Rise To His Level Of Incompetence. Everyone—from The Office Intern To The Ceo, From The Low-level Civil Servant To A Nation's President—will Inevitably Rise To His Or Her Level Of Incompetence, If It Hasn't Happened Already. Dr. Peter's Glorious Revelation Explains Why Incompetence Is At The Root Of Everything We Endeavor To Do—why Schools Bestow Ignorance, Why Governments Condone Anarchy, Why Courts Dispense Injustice, Why Prosperity Causes Unhappiness, And Why Utopian Plans Never Generat
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- Author
- Peter, Laurence J; Hull, Raymond, 1919-
- Publisher
- Collins Business, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061699061
- Category
- humor
- Subjects
- Management, Fiction, Self Help
- Rating
- 3.79 / 5 (100 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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