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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter

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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.

Laurence J. Peter
1969
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Topic
Incompetence
Statement type
Precepts and axioms
Genre
Economic literaturePhilosophical literature
Time
1969
Person
Laurence J. Peter
Provenance
Citation
Peter, Laurence J. The Peter Principle. William Morrow & Company, Inc., 1969, ch. 1.

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