For professionals who have fallen victim to a phenomenon first identified in 1969 by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, known as The ...

A job promotion is usually considered a good thing, but every promotion comes with a hidden dark side. It's called the Peter Principle, and when it erupts it can wreak havoc on departments, personnel ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurence J. Peter, seen here in a 1984 interview with CBC News, was the co-author of the 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle, ...

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 ...

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... Why Is Your Boss Bad At His Job? It May Be The ...

"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 ...

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 ...