Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rodd Wagner is a Minneapolis-based writer who covers worker happiness. It’s not clear just how much Laurence J. Peter was joking ...

“The Peter Principle,” by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, caught the attention of many when it was published in 1969. Its premise is that employees are promoted based on their success in previous ...

In 1969, a man named Laurence Peterson published a book in which he argued that people in the private sector and in government consistently get promoted to their level of incompetence. Gov. Steve ...

What is the Peter Principle? It’s a theory formulated by educator Laurence J. Peter from Canada, and published in 1969. It states that a person will rise to “their level of incompetence.” Every time I ...

To understand Joe Biden, you must understand the Peter Principle. Laurence J. Peter developed The Peter Principle, which states that a person rises to the level of their incompetence. In a ...

While Paul Samuelson concedes that "perhaps there are managers who can outperform the market consistently," he questions why academic investigators have been unable to find any evidence of their ...

Many years ago, a book called “The Peter Principle” was published. It presented the theory that in a hierarchy, people tend to rise to a level in which they become incompetent. One only has to look at ...