The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

by Laurence J. Peter

extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don’t start performing worse. Their presence “disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.

Incompetence knows no barriers of time or place.

In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence

“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

exceptional leadership competence cannot make its way within an established hierarchy. It usually breaks out of the hierarchy and starts afresh somewhere else.