The Peter Principle theorizes that people in a firm will be promoted to a point where they are no longer qualified, leaving a company with incompetent employees in leadership roles.

The Peter Principle asserts that employees are often promoted to their level of incompetence, where their skills no longer align with new responsibilities. This phenomenon leads to inefficiencies ...

Published in 1969, The Peter Principle skewered corporate culture decades before Dilbert and The Office became pop culture hits. While it was written as satire, researchers have looked into the ...

Candidates like Texas Sen. Wendy Davis and Cuyahoga County Executive Ed FitzGerald are examples of the Peter Principle: They were both successful, but both lost their campaigns for higher office.

<p>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 informal way to describe it was ...

The Peter Principle states that people rise up the hierarchy to a level of incompetence. They cannot perform at that higher level.

"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 ...

However, history will also show him to have been a classic victim of the Peter Principle, which explains governing incompetence as often being due to a person being promoted to a level or two ...

Your unsuspecting employer had no idea that your boss would become a full-blown case of the Peter Principle in action. So who is Peter and what did he do to make your boss so frustrating, you ask?

It May Be The 'Peter Principle' At Work 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 who were ...