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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Paperback • 2011 • English

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

By Laurence J. Peter

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About the book

-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 outrageo...Show more

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9780062092069

Publisher

HarperBusiness

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Format

Paperback

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