A Quote by Laurence J. Peter

Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence J. Peter
Canadian - Writer
September 16, 1919 - January 12, 1990

The Andrew Principle is when the incompetence of an organization exceeds the incompetence of certain individuals within that organization, thereby allowing their promotion within said organization.

Chris Alexander

We three have never been very good chemists but we are gratified with a Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Peter Principle says that everyone is promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. We are worried that we may have reached this remarkable point.

Jacques Dubochet

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.

John Olver

In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ... in time every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out its duties ... Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

Authoritarianism and secrecy breed incompetence; the two feed on each other. It's a vicious cycle. Governments with authoritarian tendencies point to what is in fact their own incompetence as the rationale for giving them yet more power.

Josh Marshall

I worry that humanity has been "advanced" to its present level of incompetency because evolution works on the Peter Principle.

Jane Wagner

Each person feels pain in his own way, each has his own scars.

Haruki Murakami

The problem that we have is the President himself- a President who prides himself on his own weakness and incompetence and whose love of false prophets and strange women knows no bounds and has no end. A President who is as confused and as clueless as the comic character called Chancey Gardner in the celebrated 1970's Peter Seller's Hollywood blockbuster titled ”Being There

Femi Fani-Kayode

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter

From the root, the sap rises up into the artist, flows through him, flows to his eye. Overwhelmed and activated by the force of the current, he conveys his vision into his work. And yet, standing at his appointed place as the trunk of the tree, he does nothing other than gather and pass on what rises from the depths. He neither serves nor commands he transmits. His position is humble. And the beauty at the crown is not his own; it has merely passed through him.

Paul Klee

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

Margaret Atwood

The organization of ofices follows the principle of hierarchy ... each lower office is under the control and supervision of a higher one

Max Weber

When focusing only on one's credentials one boasts his own incompetence in his capacity for discernment of the individual.

Criss Jami

The highest challenge inside organizations is to enable each person to contribute his or her unique talents and passion to accomplish the organization's purpose.

Stephen Covey

Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time.

Muhammad Yunus

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