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Peter Principle

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Peter Principle
n.
The theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which they are incompetent.
[After Laurence Johnston Peter (1919-1990).]
Peter Principle
n
the. the theory, usually taken facetiously, that all members in a hierarchy rise to their own level of incompetence
[from the book The Peter Principle (1969) by Dr. Lawrence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, in which the theory was originally propounded]


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