In the late 1960s, Laurence J. Peter created the “Peter Principle,” postulating that managers are promoted to their level of incompetence, causing organizations to falter. As I reflect on the software ...

It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because ...

In 1969, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull developed a business theory entitled the Peter Principle: “In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.” The Peter ...

IN the field of organisational management, the Peter Principle remains one of the most compelling — if not uncomfortable —observations. Coined by Canadian educator Laurence Peter, the theory posits: ...

In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Lawrence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The informal way to describe it was this: In ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The Peter Principle states that a person competent in their job will earn a promotion to a ...

In his latest opinion piece, James Largay cites the classic Peter Principle, which posits that employees are promoted to their level of incompetence, and then everyone is stuck with them there. This ...

What is the Peter Principle? It’s a theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter from Canada, and published in 1969. It states that a person will rise to “their level of incompetence.” Every time I ...

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 ...

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