Peter Principle, The - Softcover

Peter, Laurence J.; Hull, Raymond

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553244159 ISBN 13: 9780553244151

Publisher: Bantam Books, 1984

Synopsis

Explains the inescapable laws governing inefficiency and ineptitude in all fields of endeavor

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question
Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant?

The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy—from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation’s president—will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do—why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias.

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.

About the Author:

Laurence J. Peter was born in Canada and received an EdD from Washington State University. An experienced teacher, counselor, school psychologist, prison instructor, consultant, and university professor, he wrote articles for many journals and magazines as well as several books. He died in 1990.

Raymond Hull wrote many stage plays as well as articles for Punch, Maclean’s, and Esquire. He died in 1985.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Books
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0553244159
• ISBN 13: 9780553244151
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192