Summary of Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull's The Peter Principle

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I was taught that the more you know, the farther you go, so I stayed in school until I graduated from college. I then went forth into the world, clutching firmly these ideas and my new teaching certificate.
#2 There is always someone who is incompetent at their job. I found that employees move up through a hierarchy, but after they are promoted, they become more incompetent.
#3 The average customer cares little about perfection. They want their car back on time. Most of Goodwin’s men are less interested in motors than their paychecks.
#4 The Peter Principle states that in every hierarchy, employees will eventually be promoted to positions of incompetence. The Principle explains that some employees, like Ellipse and Cube, reach a level of incompetence in the lowest grade and are never promoted.

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• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 13 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669353591
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Laurence J. Peter & Raymond Hull's The Peter Principle
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I was taught that the more you know, the farther you go, so I stayed in school until I graduated from college. I then went forth into the world, clutching firmly these ideas and my new teaching certificate.

#2

There is always someone who is incompetent at their job. I found that employees move up through a hierarchy, but after they are promoted, they become more incompetent.

#3

The average customer cares little about perfection. They want their car back on time. Most of Goodwin’s men are less interested in motors than their paychecks.

#4

The Peter Principle states that in every hierarchy, employees will eventually be promoted to positions of incompetence. The Principle explains that some employees, like Ellipse and Cube, reach a level of incompetence in the lowest grade and are never promoted.

#5

The Peter Principle explains how everyone in hierarchal systems rises to, and remains at, their level of incompetence. It states that for each individual, for you, for me, the final promotion is from a level of competence to a level of incompetence.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

The Peter Principle describes how employees are distributed unevenly within a hierarchy, and it is most commonly applied to teachers. The majority of teachers will be in the moderately competent class, while minorities will be in the competent and incompetent classes.

#2

An incompetent teacher is ineligible for promotion. Dorothea D. Ditto, for example, had been a extremely conforming student in college.