The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Hull, Raymond, Peter, Dr. Laurence

ISBN 10: 0062092065 / ISBN 13: 9780062092069

Published by HarperBusiness, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
• Publisher: HarperBusiness
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0062092065
• ISBN 13: 9780062092069
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

“The Peter Principle has cosmic implications.”
—New York Times

Back in 1969, Lawrence J. Peter created a cultural phenomenon  with his brilliant, outrageous, hilarious, and all-too-true treatise on business and life, The Peter Principle—and his words and theories are as true today as they were then. By posing—and answering—the eternal question, “Why do things always go wrong?” Peter explores the incompetence that runs so rampant through our society, our workplace, and our world in an outrageously funny yet honest and eye-opening manner. With a new foreword by Robert I. Sutton, bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule, this twenty-first century edition of Peter’s classic is set to shake up the business world all over again.

About the Authors

Laurence J. Peter was born in Canada and received an EdD from Washington State University. An experienced teacher, counselor, school psychologist, prison instructor, consultant, and university professor, he wrote articles for many journals and magazines as well as several books. He died in 1990.

Raymond Hull wrote many stage plays as well as articles for Punch, Maclean’s, and Esquire. He died in 1985.