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 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 ...

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., ...

What is the Peter Principle? It’s a theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter from Canada, and published in 1969. It states that a person will rise to “their level of incompetence.” Every time I ...

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 ...

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 ...

The curious minds at ColdFusion analyze why managers are failing due to the Peter Principle. Recognizing this problem helps ...

It’s a profound change of mind-set to see yourself, as a leader, through the eyes of your employees. For those who have never heard of it, the Peter Principle is a concept in management developed by ...

According to the Peter Principle, a business theory formulated by Canadian Lawrence Peters back in 1968, in a hierarchy, people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence. But in Boulder, that ...

The anti-bullying industry has attracted everyone from serious scholars to scam artists to pop stars, including the old hippie who was a smash hit at Jefferson County’s Patterson Elementary in August ...