[PW] Bureaucacies

[Adrian Smith]

This is The Peter Principle, from the book of the same name

Adrian
Headingley


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S M Colowick
Sent: 10 June 2007 06:53
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Subject: Re: [PW] Bureaucacies

> Who wrote (approximately) that in a bureaucracy all people rise to the

> level of their inadequacy?
>
> What is the source?  What is the correct quote?

Sounds like the Peter Principle, developed by Dr. Laurence J. Peter,
which says that in a hierarchy everyone rises to his level of
incompetence. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle.

Susie
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