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Baitball Blogger

(46,706 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 12:04 PM Feb 2017

LOL! From now on, when people talk about the Peter Pan principle...

Trump's name is sure to come up. Now we know the extreme dangers of rising up the ranks because of one's social networks.

The Peter Principle is an observation that the tendency in most organizational hierarchies, such as that of a corporation, is for every employee to rise in the hierarchy through promotion until they reach the levels of their respective incompetence.

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LOL! From now on, when people talk about the Peter Pan principle... (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Feb 2017 OP
I thought that's the Dilbert-principle. DetlefK Feb 2017 #1
"The Peter Principle" was published way before Dilbert the cartoon ran. brush Feb 2017 #2

brush

(53,778 posts)
2. "The Peter Principle" was published way before Dilbert the cartoon ran.
Fri Feb 10, 2017, 01:23 PM
Feb 2017

It's being demonstrated repeatedly in this trump admin. — glaringly in trump himself.

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