A job promotion is usually considered a good thing, but every promotion comes with a hidden dark side. It's called the Peter Principle, and when it erupts it can wreak havoc on departments, personnel ...

THE PETER (BUTTIGIEG) PRINCIPLE. In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The ...

The Peter Principle holds that we rise to our level of incompetence. In other words, at some point in our career, we all end up in over our heads. Tom Foster's Management Skills blog has a post on how ...

IMGCAP(1)]You're most likely familiar with the concept of the Peter Principle, which describes how people get promoted to a level just above their level of competence. That it has a name suggests how ...

It’s the famous (or infamous) theory that within organizations, people tend to rise to their level of incompetence. Folks get promoted based on a good attitude, loyalty, a strong work ethic, etc., ...

Outside Vancouver's Metro Theatre is a plaque commemorating a play that at least two people thought was terrible. It describes how writer Raymond Hull was complaining about the atrocious production he ...

Incompetence personified defines our current leader of the free world. Back in 1969, Peter and Hull wrote what they thought was a half-serious little book, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go ...

Peter suggests that life on every planet will eventually reach a level of incompetence. If so%2C then when that message from the stars finally arrives it might not be what we expected%3F Perhaps we ...

According to the Peter Principle, a business theory formulated by Canadian Lawrence Peters back in 1968, in a hierarchy, people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence. But in Boulder, that ...