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The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

With the wit of Mark Twain, the psychological acuity of Sigmund Freud, and the theoretical impact of Isaac Newton, Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull’s The Peter Principle brilliantly explains how incompetence and its accompanying ...
Human Resource Management

Human Resource Management

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In moreformal parlance, the effect couldbe stated as: employees tend to be given more authority until they cannot continue towork competently. Itwas formulated by Dr. LaurenceJ.Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, ...
Moon California Road Trip: San Francisco, Yosemite, Las ...

Moon California Road Trip: San Francisco, Yosemite, Las ...

Stuart Thornton

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Canadiana

Canadiana

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616.6'93 RC884 Ruebsaat, Helmut J The male climacteric / Helmut J. Ruebsaat and Raymond Hull. - New York : Hawthorn Books, C1975. xviii, 190 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. ISBN 0 8015 4810 1 : $7.95 1. Climacteric. 1. Retour d'age. I. Hull  ...
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Dr. Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Times

Laurence J. Peter

From the author of the multimillion-selling The Peter Principle, and The Peter Prescription, here is a timeless collection of some of history's greatest and best-expressed thoughts.
Becoming Jane Jacobs

Becoming Jane Jacobs

Peter L. Laurence

In Becoming Jane Jacobs, an intellectual biography of the great urbanist, Peter L. Laurence asserts that The Death and Life of Great American Cities was not the spontaneous epiphany of an amateur activist but the product of a professional ...
The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

The Official Rules: 5,427 Laws, Principles, and Axioms to ...

Paul Dickson

280 Peter's Paradoxical Paradox of incompetence; every post tends to be filled by an employee incompetent to ... Peter's Theorem: Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence. (Dr. LaurenceJ. Peter and Peter Hull, from their book ...
Peter's Almanac

Peter's Almanac

Laurence J. Peter

Providing support and encouragement for enduring the occasional lunacy of modern life, Dr. Peter brings together, in the form of an almanac, a collection of appropriate adages, epigrams, one-liners, and little-known historical facts
Hull: Culture, History, Place

Hull: Culture, History, Place

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Telling the story of Hull from the earliest settlement on the muddy banks of the river, through civil war rebellion, maritime success and the trauma of World War II to post war resilience and recovery, this book shows how and why Hull has ...
The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of ...

The Architecture of Concepts: The Historical Formation of ...

Peter de Bolla

In this way words and concepts are never completely 21. Here I mean to refer to both “prototype” and “classical” accounts of concepts as described by Margolis and Laurence. See Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence, “Concepts and Cognitive ...
Moon USA Travel Planner

Moon USA Travel Planner

Avalon Travel

6 (inset) Hubbell Trading Post © Tim Hull; (bottom) Superstition Mountains © Scottsdale CVB; p. 7 (top left) Window Rock © Tim Hull; (top right) Havasupai horses © Tim Hull; (bottom left) Mooney Falls © Tim Hull; (bottom right) downtown  ...
Le Principe de Peter (nouvelle édition)

Le Principe de Peter (nouvelle édition)

Laurence-J. Peter

Le principe de Peter plonge tout lecteur dans l'émerveillement, en lui faisant découvrir qu'un patron, un chef de service peuvent être moins compétents qu'il ne le suppose et que, malgré cette incompétence, ils ont pu s'élever très ...
Peter's people

Peter's people

Laurence J. Peter

Presents comments about numerous well-known people of the past and present and provides a variety of laws and principles concerning the human condition.
How to Write a Play

How to Write a Play

Raymond Hull

Covers dramatic structure, conflict, character development, dialogue, and plot, discusses the role of the actors and director, and gives advice about getting a play published
Congressional Edition

Congressional Edition

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The Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Complete Poems Of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Paul Laurence Dunbar

PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Paul Laurence Dunbar was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872. His parents had both escaped from slavery in Kentucky, and his father was a veteran of the American Civil War. When Dunbar began to attend Dayton's ...
The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong

Laurence J. Peter

This book caused a storm when first published in 1969, battering up the bestseller list to #1, charming readers from Topeka to Timbuktu, and finally, brilliantly, blessedly giving the world an answer to a question that nags us all: Why is ...

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