Laurence J. Peter Quotes About Leadership

• In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

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  The Peter Principle ch. 1 (1969). An earlier version by Peter was reported in the Wall Street Journal, 8 June 1967: "The Peter Principle is this: In each hierarchy, whether it be government, business, etc., each employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Every post tends to be occupied by an employee incompetent to execute its duties... . Dr. Peter explains that the work is done by people who have not yet attained final placement at their level of incompetence." See Scott Adams 1

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• Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .

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  Dr. Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull (1969). “THE PETER PRINCIPLE WHY THINGS ALWAYS GO WRONG”

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• They lead only as the carved wooden figurehead leads the ship.

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