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Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.

Laurence J. Peter

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Laurence Johnston Peter (16 September 1919 – 12 January 1990) was a Canadian educator and management theorist, most famous for having formulated the Peter Principle.

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an employee’s relationship — by blood, marriage or acquaintance — with a person above him in the hierarchy.

tis the curse of service,
Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to the first.

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