The Peter Pyramid: Or, Will We Ever Get the Point?
Language: English
Published by William Morrow & Co, New York, 1986
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- Hardcover
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The Peter Pyramid: Or, Will We Ever Get the Point? by Laurence J. Peter. Illustrated by Matt Wuerke. r William Morrow and Company, 1986 — First Edition / First Printing. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book Condition / Dust Jacket Condition • Book: Near Fine -; Clean, sharp hardcover copy with only minor shelfwear. Binding tight and square; boards clean and square corners. tight square binding, pages clean and unmarked with light uniform toning. Full number line present, confirming first printing. • Dust Jacket: Very Good +; Original dust jacket present unclipped at $12.95. Downgraded for edgewear and upper spine edgewear with two small tears repaired ex verso with archival tape. (see photos) A later comic business and management satire from Laurence J. Peter, author of The Peter Principle, The Peter Pyramid applies Peter’s organizational humor to hierarchy, bureaucracy, executive incompetence, and the absurdities of modern management. Illustrated by Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker, this first printing is a collectible business-humor title for readers of workplace satire and management theory.…
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- Title
- The Peter Pyramid: Or, Will We Ever Get the Point?
- Author
- Peter, Laurence J.
- Publisher
- William Morrow & Co, New York
- Publication year
- 1986
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0688053807
- ISBN 13
- 9780688053802
- Illustrator
- Matt Wuerke
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 380 grams
- Dimensions
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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Copyright 1985 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Peter's newest "principle" is: "Systems start small and grow to occupy all our time and space." In other words, this book attempts to do for organizations what The Peter Principle did for individuals, namely, to show that whole systems are capable of reaching their levels of incompetence. The central idea is clever, and the book throws a number of illuminating and entertaining sidelights on some of the more preposterous aspects of big business, but on the whole it is disappointing. Peter wavers between a desire to render bureaucracies ridiculous and a contrary desire to establish their plausibility. He ends up by giving a list of suggested antidotes to the ills that ail big business, but they are nothing but familiar nostrums under new labels. A. J. Anderson, Graduate Sch. of Library & Information Science, Simmons Coll., Boston
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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