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Title: The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter ISBN: 1-56849-161-1 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 (14 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Looks satirical but is actually quite serious
Comment: This book's subject has been described as "satirical sociology". It's a rather short book that consists of made-up stories about administrative and business hierarchies. Some (if not all) of them are based on true events. Mr. Peter has given his characters funny names and the stories make you laugh frequently, but actually the message of the book is very serious. Mr. Peter demonstrates that endless climbing higher and higher is bound to lead your life into a dead end.
The book's fun to read and, in my opinion, delivers really valuable knowledge. It helps you to stand hold to the pressure from the environment that is telling you that when you are not successful with something, you just need to keep trying harder and investing more. Mr. Peter helps you realise why this won't work.
I have heard that some US government institutions are actually applying Mr. Peter's discoveries in their organization.
If you liked "Parkinson's Law", you'll enjoy this book as well. (And vice versa.)
Rating: 5
Summary: You will be the Peter Principle if we don't read this book.
Comment: "The Peter Principle; why things always go wrong" by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, William Morrow & Company, Inc., New York, 1969, 179 pages in paperback. The Peter Principle: In a Hierarchy Every Employee Tends to Rise to His Level of Incompetence. The author provides an insightful analysis of why so many positions in so many organizations seem to be populated by employees who exhibit signs of incompetence. A most disturbing concept since we all tend to all rise to our own level of incompetence. This concept is likely to be ignored by most senior managers and consultants since to admit it is to admit that we may also be at our own level incompetence. Ignorance is bliss? The end result is that non-growing companies are more likely to have incompetent employees at many levels of the organizational structure whereas growing companies add new positions and employees so fast that the inevitable results of the Peter Principle may be forestalled as long as growth continues. "Employees", as the author points out, "do not want to be incompetent", but when management offers promotions that put the employees into their level of incompetence, the employees have no way of knowing that ahead of time. After all, if the offer is made it is because management "knows" the employee can do the job competently. Many managers are at their level of incompetence thus they make these poor selections.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good until the end
Comment: I read this book with great enthusiasm, having heard so much about it. And sure enough, the first few chapters were great. But the ending was kind of a letdown. I feel that Dr. Peter built up my expectations and then failed to deliver what I really needed: how to avoid the P.P.
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Title: Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson ISBN: 1568490151 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Inc Pub. Date: 01 February, 1993 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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Title: Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Times by Laurence J. Peter ISBN: 0688119093 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: 29 March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Peter Prescription: How to Make Things Go Right by Laurence J. Peter ISBN: 0553242814 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: March, 1984 List Price(USD): $3.50 |
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Title: Winning Through Intimidation by Robert J. Ringer ISBN: 0449207862 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Murphy's Law 2000: What Else Can Go Wrong in the 21st Century by Arthur Bloch ISBN: 084317482X Publisher: Price Stern Sloan Pub. Date: 01 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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