(Reuters) - The idea that people succeed at work up to the point at which they are no longer much good apparently applies to fund managers too. A new study bears out the truth in asset management of ...

The Peter Principle isn’t a bug in organizational design. It’s a feature—one that protects those who benefit from it and ...

A disturbing trend is on the rise for people who serve in a management capacity in healthcare. It hit me when I read Overcoming the Peter Principle, by Andrea Ovans (2014). The Peter Principle is ...

The Peter Principle holds that we rise to our level of incompetence. In other words, at some point in our career, we all end up in over our heads. Tom Foster's Management Skills blog has a post on how ...

A job promotion is usually considered a good thing, but every promotion comes with a hidden dark side. It's called the Peter Principle, and when it erupts it can wreak havoc on departments, personnel ...

Promotions are often a harbinger of many problems, with the performance of those who receive them declining after their hierarchical “ascent.” ...

If you’ve ever worked in an organization, you’ve no doubt come across someone in senior management and asked yourself how they ever got promoted. The Peter Principle, coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter ...

Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Laurence J. Peter had perhaps one of the most succinct and insightful observations in the world: People rise to their level of ...