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The Peter Principle [Mass Market Paperback]

Dr. Laurence J. Peter (Author)
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1972
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy-from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation's president-will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do-why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull's The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.


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  • Mass Market Paperback: 170 pages
  • Publisher: Bantam; 18th Printing edition (1972)
  • ISBN-10: 0553054333
  • ISBN-13: 978-0553054330
  • Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4 x 0.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,415 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Answers lot of things about corporations, May 8, 2009
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Answers lot of things about corporations and other institute and why overtime complacency kicks in.
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