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 ...

The Peter Principle isn’t a bug in organizational design. It’s a feature—one that protects those who benefit from it and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Outside Vancouver's Metro Theatre is a plaque commemorating a play that at least two people thought was terrible. It describes how writer Raymond Hull was complaining about the atrocious production he ...

Maybe you were in love, and your mind turned to mush, and no words seemed big enough or sweet enough to capture the sentiment of the moment. Or maybe you were embarrassed. You tried to speak and you ...

Don’t promote someone until you’ve given them one or more parts of the job for a time to see how they do under close supervision. Don’t promote someone until you’ve given them one or more parts of the ...

Day 10: Avoid the "Peter Principle." This post is part of Forbes’ Career Challenge: Position Yourself For A Promotion In 15 Days. Every additional year I spend in the workforce, I realize promotions ...

If you’ve ever immersed yourself in the wonderful world of business literature, you are likely familiar with the Peter Principle, a tongue-in-cheek but cogent treatise written in 1969 that delineated ...