The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong, Paperback/Laurence J. Peter

- 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 outrageously funny yet honest and eye-opening manner. With a new foreword by Robert I. Sutton, bestselling author of The No Asshole Rule , this twenty-first century edition of Peter's classic is set to shake up the business world all over again.