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Peter Principle (PEET-uhr PRIN-suh-pal) noun
The theory that an employee within an organization will advance to his or her level of incompetence and remain there. [After Laurence Johnston Peter (1919-1990).] "To me, Randell personified the Peter Principle, a popular management theory of the 1970s which held that you rise to your level of incompetence - in other words, you keep getting promoted till eventually you find yourself in a job that's beyond you." Karl Du Fresne, Sleeping better thanks to Blackadder, The Evening Post, May 31, 2000. This week's theme: syndromes, paradoxes, laws, and principles. ............................................................................. Experience is the comb life gives you after you lose your hair. -Judith Stearn Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone." Invite your friends and family to join in the quest by sending a gift subscription of A.Word.A.Day. It is free! http://wordsmith.org/awad/gift.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/peter_principle.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/peter_principle.ram
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