Around 2007, I came across an article on Peter Principle and found the observation very intriguing & interesting. I read a lot on it and realised that, while there had been no research done to ...

But the Peter principle, developed by Canadian educator Laurence J Peter, does suggest that, within any organisation, people are promoted to their level of incompetence.

It was in the mid-1960s that Laurence J. Peter, a young teacher in Canada, wondered why one encounters so many incompetent employees over the course of a career ...

Is the Kenya Kwanza government suffering from the Peter Principle? The promises it made for the first 100 days in office, beginning with lowering the cost of living have not been fulfilled.

Long before he was cancelled for being a Trump supporter, Scott Adams, came up with Dilbert’s Principle, a corollary of the Peter Principle. For the uninitiated, Peter’s Principle has nothing ...

A prominent author and columnist has called for the licensing of e-scooters and e-bikes during a community debate. Peter ...

Jonathan Turley took aim at the New York attorney general in an opinion column on Saturday amid an appeals hearing in Trump's ...

Peter Jay, who has died aged 87, was, as a 37-year-old journalist, billed by Time magazine as one of 150 future world leaders ...

The Peter principle is a concept in management developed by Laurence J. Peter which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence": employees are promoted ...

It's common practice to reward high performers a higher spot in the org chart, but being good at your job doesn't mean you'll be good at managing people. Here's what companies should be doing instead.

This article is from our Management Matters series, which argues it's time for a management revival. Businesses should reward, value and respect managers, because they are often the answer to their ...