The Peter Principle isn’t a bug in organizational design. It’s a feature—one that protects those who benefit from it and ...

But when a role is genuinely different, fresh qualities matter. The transition to management is an obvious breakpoint. The ...

In 1969, Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull released The Peter Principle, a book which introduced the concept that in any particular employment hierarchy, employees are promoted until they reach their ...

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 ...

According to the Peter Principle, a business theory formulated by Canadian Lawrence Peters back in 1968, in a hierarchy, people tend to rise to the level of their incompetence. But in Boulder, that ...

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, ...

“The Peter Principle,” by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, caught the attention of many when it was published in 1969. Its premise is that employees are promoted based on their success in previous ...

Laurence J. Peter had perhaps one of the most succinct and insightful observations in the world: People rise to their level of incompetence. Called, appropriately enough, the Peter Principle , this ...