The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

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The Peter Principle, by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull

This classic satire of modern management is, of course, largely correct and but for some rather dated scenarios and value judgments, remains quite relevant to modern management.

Two of its central concepts can be dressed in terms a modern millennial might understand: The hierarchy, and the principle itself, that in a hierarchy, everyone tends to rises to one’s own level of incompetence.Cite error: Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag as is evolution by natural selection.