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Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter was a Canadian-born educator and writer. With Raymond Hull he wrote The Peter Principle (1969), which argues that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to their 'level of incompetence'.
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“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
— Laurence J. Peter, The Peter Principle (1969), with Raymond Hull; checked in the Internet Archive scan of a 1969 UK editionWatch on YouTube: The Peter Principle (BBC, 1974) ↗Laurence J. Peter explains the principle (1974)