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 ...

The conversation in the lobby, which occurred sometime in the early-to-mid 1960s, sparked both men's imaginations and ultimately gave birth to their 1969 best-seller The Peter Principle ...

According to a satiric new book called The Peter Principle (Morrow; $4.95), which he wrote with the help of Canadian Freelancer Raymond Hull, the basic premise of hierarchiology is that “with ...