The Peter Principle

In a Hierarchy, Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence

The Peter Principle, a business classic for more than twenty-five years, is a dead-on account of why boredom, bungling, and bad management are built into every organization. Through hilarious case histories and cartoons adapted from Punch, Dr. Peter shows how America's corporate career track pushes employees relentlessly upward — until they get promoted into jobs they just can't do and wind up desperately treading water, driving their colleagues crazy, and dragging down productivity and profit. Buit there is hope — Dr. Peter's Prophylactics, Palliatives, Placebos, and Prescriptions offer wise and witty ways to reverse one's "rendezvous with oblivion" and achieve a better quality of life.

The Peter Principle remains every bit as funny and as fundamental as it was when it first entered the business lexicon twenty-five years ago.

• Foreword by Laurence J. Peter
• Introduction by Raymond Hull

1. The Peter Principle
2. The principle in Action
3. Apparent Exceptions
4. Pull & Promotion
5. Push & Promotion
6. Followers & Leaders
7. Hierarchiology & Politics
8. Hints & Foreshadowings
9. The Psychology of Hierarchiology
10. Peter's Spiral
11. The Pathology of Sucess
12. Non-Medical Indices of Final Placement
13. Health & Happiness at Zero PQ
• Possibility or Pipe Dream
14. Creative Incompetence
• How to Avoid the Ultimate Promotion
15. The Darwinian Extension
    

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