Reply #3: "The Peter Principle' was broken during the Bush years [View All]

[Ichingcarpenter]

Many got promoted beyond their level of incompetence.



The Peter Principle states that "in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence", meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position at which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous <1> treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology."