#laurence peter

[quotes-by-dilanka]

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

―Laurence J. Peter

[dmarchesiart]

[quixoticquozes]

Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.

Laurence J. Peter

[quipsandwitticisms]

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

Laurence Peter

[michaelsmosey]

An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.

Laurence Peter

[quotes-by-dilanka]

Employees in the two extreme classes—the super-competent and the super-incompetent—are alike subject to dismissal. They are usually fired soon after being hired, for the same reason: that they tend to disrupt the hierarchy. This sloughing off of extremes is called Hierarchal Exfoliation.

Laurence Peter, The Peter Principal (pg 43)

[quotes-by-dilanka]

Ordinary incompetence, as we have seen, is no cause for dismissal: it is simply a bar to promotion. Super-competence often leads to dismissal, because it disrupts the hierarchy, and thereby violates the first commandment of hierarchal life:the hierarchy must be preserved.

Laurence Peter, The Peter Principal (pg 43)

[quotes-by-dilanka]

Consider Dr. Peter’s counterintuitive claim that “in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if they don’t start performing worse. Their presence “disrupts and therefore violates the first commandment of hierarchical life: the hierarchy must be preserved.”

Laurence Peter, The Peter Principle (pg 7)