The Peter Principle

Dr. Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull

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Chapter 3

  • Ordinary incompetence, as we have seen, is no cause for dismissal: it is simply a bar to promotion. Super-competence often leads to dismissal, because it disrupts the hierarchy, and thereby violates the first commandment of hierarchal life: the hierarchy must be preserved.

Chapter 5

  • "Slump, and the world slumps with you. Push and you push alone."