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Summary: Should have been a pamphlet
Review: The darkly humurous Peter Principal itself is easy to understand and witness in life. I mostly agree with the presentation of it. Fine. Write a pamphelt and be done with it? No, append more material and sell books, no matter how forced the extra bulk is. The book really gets tiresome when Peter tries to quantify and name (after himself) almost every aspect of organizational beheavior (real or otherwise). Nothing can be as precisely packaged as this diatribe attempts to do.
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Review: the peter principl
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Summary: JD
Review: The Peter Principle is an excellent book, if you want to know the secret to FAILURE. Laurence Peter's self-proclaimed principle that "each person rises to their highest level of incompetence" only serves to demonstrate Peter's dislike for people and his own failure in life. It has been said that it takes no more than to read the first chapter of any book to determine whether or not the author likes people, meaning that the author is truly interested in telling a story, sharing facts regarding an issue or teaching a new-found knowledge to the reader. Peter on the other hand, begins assuming that people are inherently failures, and it is only a matter of time and effort before they become that. Peter's self-fulfilling prophesy, eeerrr, theory, is no better demonstrated than in his own book, the Peter Principle. It was the transition to his highest level of incompetence. I would not recommend this book to anyone who believes in leadership, success, the trail and tribulations on the road to success and the richness and diversity of people and the endurance of the human spirit. Napoleon Hill wrote in his book: Think and Grow Rich and I will paraphrase: The difference between those who are truly successful and those who are not is this, there are those who fail, fail and fail, then give up; they are the unsuccessful in life. Then there are those who fail, fail and fail, then get up; they are the truly successful. Unfortunately, Peter didn't realize the importance of encouraging people to succeed, instead he chose only to present the scenario that if you've done well, stop at that, you couldn't possibly get any better?! I suggest to the Amazon.com readers to save their time and money from this book.
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Summary: should become a classic
Review: this book combines humor and serious information about
our life.
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Summary: Don't take it too seriously
Review: This book is a satirical look at our highly achieving society. Work hard and you end up being incompetant. The authors make up a number of names for conditions and symptoms to attempt to say the choices you have in life are incompetancy or enjoyment through diversions. I started off reading it as a "real" social psychological work with testimonials and cases. By the end, the absurd diagnoses, which all of us show to some degree, made me realize that I believe the authors are just trying to say don't take your career too seriously.
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Summary: Unscientific nonsense
Review: this book supposedly coined the popular phrase, known as Peter's principle, "people get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence", which is a somewhat funny and simplistic statement that appeals to our natural envy by making fun of successful people. Unfortunately, this simplistic view is all there is to this book. Such cases of management incompetence exist, of course, but in reality, things are just more complicated than that. The book does not even remotely consider the possibilty of people learning or advancing mentally - up to the point that even schoolchildren failing a grade are characterized as having reached their level of incompetence. The same gross oversimplification can be found throughout the entire book. It is an endless repetition of obviously fictitious examples of incompetence that serve to illustrate the dubious principles that it promotes. While the book never stops claiming its own scientificness, it provides little more than "argument by repetition". The book culminates in praising the "power of negative thinking" and describing clever ways to avoid getting promoted. No doubt it can serve as an excuse for underachievers, but it does nothing to justify the popularity of "Peter's principle".
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Summary: Looks satirical but is actually quite serious
Review: This book's subject has been described as "satirical sociology". It's a rather short book that consists of made-up stories about administrative and business hierarchies. Some (if not all) of them are based on true events. Mr. Peter has given his characters funny names and the stories make you laugh frequently, but actually the message of the book is very serious. Mr. Peter demonstrates that endless climbing higher and higher is bound to lead your life into a dead end. The book's fun to read and, in my opinion, delivers really valuable knowledge. It helps you to stand hold to the pressure from the environment that is telling you that when you are not successful with something, you just need to keep trying harder and investing more. Mr. Peter helps you realise why this won't work. I have heard that some US government institutions are actually applying Mr. Peter's discoveries in their organization. If you liked "Parkinson's Law", you'll enjoy this book as well. (And vice versa.)
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Summary: Looks satirical but is actually quite serious
Review: This book's subject has been described as "satirical sociology". It's a rather short book that consists of made-up stories about administrative and business hierarchies. Some (if not all) of them are based on true events. Mr. Peter has given his characters funny names and the stories make you laugh frequently, but actually the message of the book is very serious. Mr. Peter demonstrates that endless climbing higher and higher is bound to lead your life into a dead end. The book's fun to read and, in my opinion, delivers really valuable knowledge. It helps you to stand hold to the pressure from the environment that is telling you that when you are not successful with something, you just need to keep trying harder and investing more. Mr. Peter helps you realise why this won't work. I have heard that some US government institutions are actually applying Mr. Peter's discoveries in their organization. If you liked "Parkinson's Law", you'll enjoy this book as well. (And vice versa.)
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Summary: WHAT INSIGHT! everyone is promoted to their level of incompe
Review: well it has been a while but i only remember that this book shares a key insight with obvious examples apparent in life around us competent goes to a level of incompetence wow NOW OUT OF PRINT those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it
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