What did Laurence J. Peter mean by: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence J. Peter Educator Copy
+ A free press is one that prints a dictator’s speech but doesn’t have to. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Dictatorship, Freedom, Press, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ It’s strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Crime, Dishonesty, Legal, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect? Author, January 14, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Contradiction, Perfection, Self-awareness, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Computers can solve all kinds of problems except the unemployment problem they create. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Paradox, Technology, Unemployment, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Peter’s Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Hierarchy, Incompetence, Organization, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ A bureaucrat’s idea of cleaning up his files is to make a copy of every paper before he destroys it. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Bureaucracy, Destruction, Duplication, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Fools rush in where wise men fear to trade. Author, August 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Caution, Foolishness, Risk, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
+ Before publishers’ blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. Author, January 13, 2024January 9, 2025, Laurence J. Peter, Publishing, Reputation, Writing, 0 Laurence J. Peter Educator
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