Laurence J. Peter Quotes

La competencia de un empleado no es determinada por los extraños, sino por su superior en la jerarquía.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

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

The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.

If man is going to rescue himself from a future intolerable existence, he must first see where his unmindful escalation is leading him. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence

IT SHOULD BE clear by now that when an employee reaches his level of incompetence, he can no longer do any useful work. Incompetent, Yes! Idle, No! This in no way suggests that the ultimate promotion suddenly changes the former worker into an idler. Not at all! In most cases he still wants to work; he still makes a great show of activity; he sometimes thinks he is working. Yet actually little that is useful is accomplished

In every organization there is a considerable accumulation of dead wood in the executive level.

Seorang yang kompeten dalam level tertentu belum tentu kompeten pada level berikutnya

Nobody understands how the incessant pressure from above and the incurable incompetence below make it utterly impossible for me to do an adequate job and keep a clean desk.

Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.

A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.

America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.