Peter Principle

Very few people begin fheir careers as managers. Usually, a person is offered a managemenf position because of pasf performance in some specialty or functional area. However, pasf success in one area does not guarantee that the person will be an effective manager. The Peter Principle states that in... 

The Peter Principle which says that, in the limit, all posidtxis in a bureaucracy will be incompetently handled, because eadi employee will rise through the hierarchy until he/she gets assigned a position that he/she performs badly he/she will then fail to get promoted, and, hence, remain at that position. 

Take a moment and analyze why your boss is like he/she is. They may have the belief he/she had a tough time climbing up the ladder. He/she had to prove himself/herself and by golly you will too. He/she may be under pressure from above that you are not privy to. He/she may be faking it. He/ she may have Peter Principled and is just waiting for the wrong person to figure it out and dump him/her. 

The larger the enterprise grows, the more restricting these individual optimums are. Parkinson s Law which consumes profits and flexibility and the "Peter Principle" take effect. 

In assessing this hierarchy, remember another finding from Prof. Peter (the Peter Principle) ... 

PETER, Laurence J./HULL, Raymond The Peter Principle Why things always go wrong William Morrow Company, 1998 ISBN 0688275443... 

This myth is obviously detrimental to optimizing a system, given the need to keep people working at tasks that use their talents. Yet it seems commonplace to offer promotion, including a higher salary and more authority, to individuals who excel at a particular job. In fact, with continued promotions people can be promoted to jobs at which they are actually incompetent. This was termed "The Peter Principle" by Lawrence Peter (1969). 

J. Kac2marek, Principles of Machining hy Cutting, Abrasion and Erosion, Peter Peregrinus, Stevenage, U.K., 1976, pp. 487—513. 

Shaw, Peter. Philosophical principles of universal chemistry. London John Osborn and Thomas Longman, 1730. 

Schimel J, Holland EA.Global gases. In David M. Sylvia, Jeffry J Fuhrmann, Peter G. Hartel, David A. Zuberer, editors. Principles and Applications of Soil Microbiology. 2nd ed. USA Pearson Prentice Hall 2005. p. 491-509. 

Peters, C.J. Marburg and Ebola virus hemorrhagic fevers. In Mandell, G.L., Bennett, J.E., Dolin, R., eds. Principles and practice of infectious diseases. 5th ed. New York, New York Churchill Livingstone 2000, 2, 1821-3. 

Gjessing, D.T., Target Adaptive Matched Illumination Radar Principles and Applications, Peter Peregrinus, 1986. 

P Rys in Physico-chemical principles of color chemistry, Eds A T Peters and H S Freeman (London Blackie, 1996) Chapter 1.2. 

If chemical "principles" were understood by philosophers to be invisible or visible matter, "cause" was understood to be invisible force. Like so many other chemists in the eighteenth century, Macquer and Baume assumed that the forces of chemical affinity are simply instances of physical forces. 18 They took Newton to be a student of these affinity forces, and they found congenial Peter Shaw s view that "it was by means of chemistry that Sir Isaac Newton has made a great part of his discoveries in natural philosophy." 19 The notion of the identity of chemical and physical force was based in the principle of economy, expressed in the standard form that similar effects "must arise from the same law, if we are not to multiply causes. "20... 

Quoted from R. Kronig and W. F. Weisskopf, eds., W. Pauli Collected Scientific Papers (New York John Wiley, 1964), II 1085, in Peter Joseph Hall, "The Pauli Exclusion Principle and the Foundations of Chemistry," Synthese 69 (1986) 267272, on 270. 

Peter A (2010) A plea for the restoration of Alpine rivers basic principles derived from the Rhone-Thur case study. In Bundi U (ed.) Alpine Waters. Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, Vol. 6. Springer, Heidelberg... 

P. Rys, in Physico-Chemical Principles of Color Chemistry, A.T. Peters and H.S. Freeman (Eds.), Blackie Academic, London, 1996. 

A very powerful inhibitor, which is a bicyclic analogue of (33), is 6-acetamido-6-deoxycastanospermine (49), a compound synthesized from castanospermine and tested by Liu and co-workers [99]. This compound, amongst many other 6-modified castanospermine derivatives, was also prepared by the Furneaux team [100]. Furthermore, by controlled ring-contraction of suitably substituted castanospermine derivatives, these workers gained access to 8-acetamido-8-deoxyaustraline (50), a byciclic analogue of l-acetamido-l,2,5-trideoxy-2,5-imino-D-mannitol (44). This ring contraction reaction, which proceeds via a tricyclic aziridinium intermediate, is based on the same principle as the approach by Peter et al. to compound (45) [95]. 

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