Archive for August 18, 2009

The Peter Principle

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. Laurence J. Peter

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Peter or Dilbert? Like Groucho Marx said, “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.”

I wonder whether Laurence J. Peter (Peter Principle) and Scott Adams (Dilbert Principle) ever met and ever discussed their visionary ideas about the way organizations work. Given the difference in age between these two, I doubt it, although Peter’s theories clearly made their mark in Scott, who knew how to express them at their best [...]

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