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The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question. Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy-from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation's president-will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do-why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull's The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.… (más)
En la estela de la "Proposición modesta" de Defoe o de "El asesinato considerado como una de las bellas artes" de Thomas De Quincey, en 1969 apareció esta obrilla, "El principio de Peter", que nos cuenta cómo una persona muy competente en su trabajo puede convertirse en todo lo contrario por el único medio de ascender de puesto gracias a los méritos de su competencia. Desde entonces, cuando esto ocurre, se dice que una persona ha superado el listón de su "competencia de Peter" y hay varios mecanismos que los responsables de haberla puesto allí pueden utilizar para eludir o minimizar el daño que el nuevo incompetente está causando en la cadena jerárquica. Aquí se explican todos. El principio de Peter es una especie de ley de Murphy jerárquica que nadie debe quedarse sin conocer. ( )
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
This book is dedicated to all those who, working, playing, loving, living and dying at their Level of Incompetence, provided the data for the founding and development for the salutary science of Hierarchiology.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
(Introduction by Raymond Hull): As an author and a journalist, I have had exceptional opportunities to study the workings of civilized society.
When I was a boy I was taught that the men upstairs knew what they were doing.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
Papyrophobia: The papyrophobe cannot tolerate papers or books on his desk or, in extreme cases, anywhere in his office. Probably every such piece of paper is a reminder to him of the work that he is not able to do: no wonder he hates the sight of it! But he makes a virtue of his phobia and, by 'keeping a clean desk', as he calls it, hopes to create the impression that he dispatches all his business with incredible promptitude.
Papyromania: Papyromania, the exact opposite of papyrophobia, causes the employee to clutter his desk with pieces of never-used papers and books. Consciously or unconsciously, he thus tries to mask his incompetence by giving the impression that he has TOO MUCH TO DO – more than any human being could accomplish.
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
When he does I am qualified and ready for the post, having proven myself capable in my present endeavours.
The classic #1 New York Times bestseller that answers the age-old question. Why is incompetence so maddeningly rampant and so vexingly triumphant? The Peter Principle, the eponymous law Dr. Laurence J. Peter coined, explains that everyone in a hierarchy-from the office intern to the CEO, from the low-level civil servant to a nation's president-will inevitably rise to his or her level of incompetence. Dr. Peter explains why incompetence is at the root of everything we endeavor to do-why schools bestow ignorance, why governments condone anarchy, why courts dispense injustice, why prosperity causes unhappiness, and why utopian plans never generate utopias. With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull's The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying symptoms, syndromes, and remedies define the world and the work we do in it.
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