The Peter Principle isn’t a bug in organizational design. It’s a feature—one that protects those who benefit from it and ...

A disturbing trend is on the rise for people who serve in a management capacity in healthcare. It hit me when I read Overcoming the Peter Principle, by Andrea Ovans (2014). The Peter Principle is ...

The Peter Principle holds that we rise to our level of incompetence. In other words, at some point in our career, we all end up in over our heads. Tom Foster's Management Skills blog has a post on how ...

Outside Vancouver's Metro Theatre is a plaque commemorating a play that at least two people thought was terrible. It describes how writer Raymond Hull was complaining about the atrocious production he ...

Most people think that the Peter Principle (employee rises to his level of incompetence) only applies to large organizations. Let me assure you that it is also alive and well within startups. I see ...

In the 1960s, there was a professor and business analyst named Lawrence J. Peter. He became famous for coming up with something called the Peter Principle. The informal way to describe it was this: In ...