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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Everyone's heard of the Peter Principle - that employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence - a concept that walks that all-too-fine line between humor and reality. We've all seen it in ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rodd Wagner is a Minneapolis-based writer who covers worker happiness. It’s not clear just how much Laurence J. Peter was joking ...

"The Peter Principle," about to be reissued in a 40th anniversary edition, was a best seller when it was first published. A satiric treatise on workplace incompetence, it touched a nerve with readers ...

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., ...

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 ...

We’ve all seen or borne the burden of working for a person who seems utterly incompetent. You want to give the guy the benefit of the doubt and make excuses for him. As time goes by, you can’t defend ...