A job promotion is usually considered a good thing, but every promotion comes with a hidden dark side. It's called the Peter Principle, and when it erupts it can wreak havoc on departments, personnel ...

IMGCAP(1)]You're most likely familiar with the concept of the Peter Principle, which describes how people get promoted to a level just above their level of competence. That it has a name suggests how ...

The Peter Principle holds that we rise to our level of incompetence. In other words, at some point in our career, we all end up in over our heads. Tom Foster's Management Skills blog has a post on how ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Laurence J. Peter, seen here in a 1984 interview with CBC News, was the co-author of the 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle, ...

In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Lawrence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The informal way to describe it was this: In ...

Why it’s too late to do something about it. Stepping down from management to line positions is hard, if not impossible, for several reasons: Because you would have to admit to failure. Nobody wants to ...

"The Peter Principle," about to be reissued in a 40th anniversary edition, was a best seller when it was first published. A satiric treatise on workplace incompetence, it touched a nerve with readers ...

Incompetence personified defines our current leader of the free world. Back in 1969, Peter and Hull wrote what they thought was a half-serious little book, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go ...

The Peter Principle states that a person competent in their job will earn a promotion to a position that requires different skills. Executives have been relying on this system in large organizations, ...