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Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.

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Work is done by those [employees] who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence

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My analysis…led me to formulate The Peter Principle: In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence.

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The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

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Laurence J. Peter

Laurence J. Peter

Born: September 16, 1919
Died: January 12, 1990 (aged 70)
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