Psychology set The Peter Principle & The Peter Pyramid by Dr. Laurence J. Peter

Description: Set of Dr. Laurence J. Peter psychology books. A nice set for the student, professional or just those interested in psychology! The first book is "The Peter Pyramid" published by Morrow 1986 first edition. 169 pages. Illustrated. Hard cover book. The second book is "The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong" by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull published by Bantam Books 1972. With Introduction by Raymond Hull, journalist and author. Illustrated. 15 Chapters, some titled : The Peter Principle. The Principle in Action. Exceptions. Pull & Promotion. Push & Promotion. Followers & Leaders. Hierarchy & Politics. Hints & Foreshadowings. The Principle of Heirarchiology. Peter's Spiral. The Pathology of Success. Creative Incompetence.The Darwinian Extension . Glossary. Authored by Laurence J. Peter , Ed. D., teacher, counselor, school psychologist, prison instructor, consultant, university professor and writer. " Ruefully Delightful, Horribly Valid, Excruciatingly Applicable - And Fun to Read " - Playboy. White colored softcover book with shaded black, brown, and , red colored lettering on the front cover and on spine. ( 4 1/8 X 7 ) 169 pages. The author Laurence J. Peter (Sept 16, 1919 - Jan 12, 1990), climbed the best-seller lists with a book meant to satirize ladder climbers everywhere. He died of complications of a stroke he suffered in January 1988. The Peter Principle, introduced in a 1969 book of the same name that Dr. Peter wrote with Raymond Hull, became as much a part of the language as Murphy's Law and Catch-22. The Peter Principle stated, ''In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.''Dr. Peter's 179-page explanation of why this was so contained example after example of people whose reward for a job well done was a promotion -and responsibilities they could not handle, meaning no further promotions.Dr. Peter found such people in businesses, school systems, government agencies, churches and political parties. ''The cream rises until it sours,'' he wrote, summarizing the result: every bureaucracy was inevitably made up almost entirely of people inadequate to their tasks. Famous quotes from his books: In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.Work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence.

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