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The Peter Principle:
The achievement of an effective Substitution will usually… allow the employee to work out the rest of his career, healthy and self-satisfied, at his level of incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
No, refusing promotion is no easy route to happiness and health.
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The Peter Principle:
…create the impression that you have already reached your level of incompetence [to avoid promotion].
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The Peter Principle:
Creative Incompetence will achieve best results if you choose an area of incompetence which does not directly hinder you in carrying out the main duties of your present position.
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The Peter Principle:
Most people agree in principle with the dictum that fine feathers don’t make fine birds, but in practice an employee is judged by his appearance.
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The Peter Principle:
…discover an irrelevant incompetence. Find it and practice it diligently. It will keep you at a level of incompetence and so assure you of the keen personal satisfaction of regularly accomplishing some useful work.
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The Peter Principle:
…the very qualities which at first assured their promotion eventually brought about their incompetence… competence always contains the seeds of incompetence.
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The Peter Principle:
Bachelors’ and masters’ degrees have regressed in value. Only the doctorate still carries any noble aura of competence…
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The Peter Principle:
Educational certificates, diplomas and degrees are losing their value as measures of competence.
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The Peter Principle:
In dealing with incompetence on the civic, national or world-wide scale, the power of negative thinking has great potential.
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