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The Peter Principle:
With planning and determination you, too, can make yourself either super-competent or super-incompetent.
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The Peter Principle:
As soon as money is offered, a way must be found to spend it… Someone is recruited to occupy the position, to wear, if not necessarily to fill the shoes.
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The Peter Principle:
Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence: they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.
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The Peter Principle:
See that the Patron has something to gain by assisting you, something to lose by not assisting you, to rise in the hierarchy.
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The Peter Principle:
Pull will speed your upward promotion through the hierarchy. It can bring you to your level [of incompetence] much sooner.
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The Peter Principle:
… all employees, aggressive or shy… must sooner or later come to rest at their level of incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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The Peter Principle:
…the machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies, riddled through and through with incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
…efficiency surveys… show that the only effective way of increasing efficiency in a hierarchy is by the infusion of new blood at its upper levels.
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The Peter Principle:
…scarcely an employee is content to remain at his level of competence: he insists on rising to a level that is beyond his powers.
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