By Laurence J. Peter
“The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.”
—New York Times
Back in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon together with his amazing, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on enterprise and existence, The Peter Principle—and his phrases and theories are as real at the present time as they have been then. through posing—and answering—the everlasting query, “Why do issues continually move wrong?” Peter explores the incompetence that runs so rampant via our society, our office, and our international in an outrageously humorous but sincere and eye-opening demeanour. With a brand new foreword via Robert I. Sutton, bestselling writer of The No Asshole Rule, this twenty-first century variation of Peter’s vintage is determined to shake up the enterprise international everywhere again.
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Mr. Beeker was not good at paperwork, but this weakness was offset, in the judgment of his superiors, by his success as a teacher. Beeker was promoted to head of the science department where he now had to order all science supplies and keep extensive records. His incompetence is evident! For three years running he has ordered new Bunsen burners, but no tubing for connecting them. As the old tubing deteriorates, fewer and fewer burners are operable, although new ones accumulate on the shelves. Beeker is not being considered for further promotion.
Tongue in Both Cheeks Although case studies were accurately compiled and data realistic, I had decided to present the Peter Principle exclusively in satirical form. Therefore, in all lectures from 1960 to 1964, and in the articles that followed, examples with a humorous connotation were used and fictitious names were employed to protect the guilty. All Rights Reserved It was in December, 1963, during the intermission of a badly presented play that I explained to Raymond Hull why the actor playing the lead was saying his lines with his back to the audience and gesturing into the wings.
You can enjoy your leisure. You can gratify your friends, confound your enemies, impress your children and enrich and revitalize your marriage. This knowledge, in short, will revolutionize your life—perhaps save it. So, if you have courage, read on, mark, memorize and apply the Peter Principle. ” M. DE CERVANTES WHEN I WAS a boy I was taught that the men upstairs knew what they were doing. ” So I stayed in school until I graduated from college and then went forth into the world clutching firmly these ideas and my new teaching certificate.