The Peter Principle Presidency

The Peter Principle Presidency

The Peter Principle, first published in 1968 by Laurence J. Peter, is the premise that, in a hierarchy, people rise to the level of their incompetence. That is, there’s a tendency to promote people people into jobs for which they are not qualified, and which they cannot do well. Dr. Peter (jokingly?) claimed his principle is “the key to an understanding of the whole structure of civilization.” And while the original formulation of the Peter Prin…