Chapter Fourteen. People Have No Limits, Even After Failure
Occasionally I have been asked whether the Peter Principle was one of Peter Drucker’s concepts. It was not. The Peter Principle came from a best-selling book of the same name, written by an academic named Laurence J. Peter. Moreover, Peter (Drucker, that is) thought the “Principle” was badly mistaken, easily disproved, and likely to lead to serious problems at many levels of management if the “Principle” were actually applied as presented. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
In Peter’s class, we had been discussing staffing and the selection of senior executives. Peter gave us a case which we were to write up and later to discuss regarding a failed promotion. Basically, the case concerned ...
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