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 ...

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 ...

Don’t promote someone until you’ve given them one or more parts of the job for a time to see how they do under close supervision. Don’t promote someone until you’ve given them one or more parts of the ...

Back in 1969, Dr. Peter and Raymond Hull wrote and published a book called The Peter Principle, where they helped popularize the notion that people tend to rise to their “level of incompetence.” In ...

WASHINGTON – The Peter Principle is: “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” The Federal Reserve’s behavior illustrates an analogous principle: Institutions that ...

Many entrepreneurs are very successful in ambitiously finding and sometimes exploiting a keen idea that most people haven’t thought about. Think Amazon, Uber, Airbnb, etc. Their passion, dedication ...

The 20th century produced the Peter Principle: in hierarchy, you’ll get promoted until you reach your level of incompetence. The 21st century provides the Peter Navarro Principle: if you’re ...

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 ...

The 20th century produced the Peter Principle: in hierarchy, you’ll get promoted until you reach your level of incompetence. The 21st century provides the Peter Navarro Principle: if you’re ...