Incompetence personified defines our current leader of the free world. Back in 1969, Peter and Hull wrote what they thought was a half-serious little book, The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go ...

IMGCAP(1)]You're most likely familiar with the concept of the Peter Principle, which describes how people get promoted to a level just above their level of competence. That it has a name suggests how ...

THE PETER (BUTTIGIEG) PRINCIPLE. In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Laurence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rodd Wagner is a Minneapolis-based writer who covers worker happiness. It’s not clear just how much Laurence J. Peter was joking ...

A simple definition of the Peter Principle is when a person does a job competently and moves up the ladder, and continues until he has progressed to where he is incompetent, and stays in that job. The ...

Have you ever wondered how highly skilled professionals can struggle when promoted to managerial roles? The answer could lie in a psychological phenomenon known as the Peter Principle—a concept that ...

Day 10: Avoid the "Peter Principle." This post is part of Forbes’ Career Challenge: Position Yourself For A Promotion In 15 Days. Every additional year I spend in the workforce, I realize promotions ...

The Ig Nobel Prize is given out by a group called Improbable Research, which celebrates "achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think. The prizes are intended to celebrate the ...