[PW] Bureaucacies "Peter Principle"

Adrian Smith a.smith at leeds.ac.uk
Sun Jun 10 10:48:14 PDT 2007


 

"In a hierarchy every empoyee tends to rise to his[sic] level of
incompetence"

Page 22:

The Peter Principle, Laurence J. PETER and Raymond HULL
London and Sydney, Pan Books Ltd, 1976
 isbn 0330025198

(c) 1969 William Morrow and Co Inc

First published in Great Britain: Souvenir Press

Adrian Smith
Leeds UK



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JMGreen
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Subject: [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?

Jim

J M Green
Email:  MailTo:JMGreen at sisna.com
WWW: HTTP://users.sisna.com/JMGreen

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