For professionals who have fallen victim to a phenomenon first identified in 1969 by Dr. Laurence J. Peter, known as The ...

A disturbing trend is on the rise for people who serve in a management capacity in healthcare. It hit me when I read Overcoming the Peter Principle, by Andrea Ovans (2014). The Peter Principle is ...

If you’ve ever immersed yourself in the wonderful world of business literature, you are likely familiar with the Peter Principle, a tongue-in-cheek but cogent treatise written in 1969 that delineated ...

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 ...

It’s tragically common for people in organizations to be promoted up the hierarchy to their “level of incompetence,” a concept in management known as the Peter Principle. They are promoted because ...

(Reuters) - The idea that people succeed at work up to the point at which they are no longer much good apparently applies to fund managers too. A new study bears out the truth in asset management of ...

Laurence J. Peter is credited with creating a management concept that bears his name: “The Peter Principle.” Simply stated, it posits that people tend to be promoted to a level above their competence.

One of the bestselling books of the 1970s was “The Peter Principle,” a business management book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. The book’s premise, in a nutshell, was that people get promotions ...