QUOTATION 9
LAURENCE J. PETER ON WHY PEOPLE RISE TO THE LEVEL OF THEIR OWN INCOMPETENCE
Use this to remind you of the need to review the performance of all staff.
The Peter Principle was devised by Laurence J. Peter (1919–90), a Canadian educator and hierarchiologist who was interested in organisation structures and hierarchies. His work often is dismissed as something of a joke, but it contains valuable insights into the nature of hierarchal organisations. The most famous of which is that:
In a hierarchy every employee rises to the level of their own incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
People often assume that the principle cannot be correct because it would mean that all managers in an organisation are incompetent and would, therefore, ...
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