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The Peter Principle - employees "rise to their level of incompetence" - was written as satire. A new study finds evidence it's quite real in sales organizations.

The Peter Principle, coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, states that individuals in hierarchical organizations tend to rise to their level of incompetence. In other words, people "are often promoted ...

In his 1969 book, The Peter Principle, Peter and co-author Raymond Hull introduced this theory to the world, which, despite being intended as satire, struck a nerve with employees across industries.

Published in 1969, The Peter Principle skewered corporate culture decades before Dilbert and The Office became pop culture hits. While it was written as satire, researchers have looked into 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.

The curious minds at ColdFusion explain why so many managers fail by diving into the concept known as the Peter Principle. 'I hate it': LA residents who surveyed vandalism fear more violence in ...

The Peter Principle made us laugh, but it also made us aware of the importance of simple competence — and of how elusive it could be. When people do their jobs well, Dr. Peter argued, society ...

Fed Chair Jerome Powell at a news conference following a Federal Open Market Committee meeting in Washington on July 27. (Ting Shen/Bloomberg News) The Peter Principle is: “In a hierarchy, every ...

It May Be The 'Peter Principle' At Work Workers with a strong sales record were likely to be promoted into managerial positions, yet they tended to be worse at managerial jobs than those who were ...