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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Why it’s too late to do something about it. Stepping down from management to line positions is hard, if not impossible, for several reasons: Because you would have to admit to failure. Nobody wants to ...

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, ...

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 ...