Hierarchy Quote by Laurence J. Peter Download Open image “In most hierarchies, supercompetence is more objectionable than incompetence.” — Laurence J. Peter ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.0 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Hierarchy Incompetence Inspirational Work
“in most hierarchies, super-competence is more objectionable than incompetence.” He warned that extremely skilled and productive employees often face criticism, and are fired if… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Organizations cannot make a genius out of an incompetent. On the other hand, disorganization can scarcely fail to result in efficiency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth. — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
..where effective competition can be created, it is a better way of guiding individual efforts than any other... regards competition as superior not only… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does… — Robert Hugh Benson Copy Share Image
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The platforms that are big, global, diversified, and both financial and physically enabled are competitively much better positioned than those which are not. — Blythe Masters Copy Share Image
“People who achieve big things are those who decide to try ideas that were previously rated and graded as impossibilities. “Impossibility” never exists!” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
The surest sign that you haven't any sense is to argue with one who hasn't. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Bore : A fellow who can change the subject back to his topic of conversation faster than you can change it back to yours. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
An optimist is one who makes the best of it when he gets the worst of it. — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
We became Homo sapiens not that long ago, from the scientific perspective, and we've retained a lot of our beast nature. We've done all… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
Love is the supreme form of communication. In the hierarchy of needs, love stands as the supreme developing agent of the humanity of the… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
In the hierarchy of the family, I'm just above the dog. But I like it that way. — Jens Voigt Copy Share Image
The entire hierarchy of angels can best be described as an endlessly vast sphere of beings, who surround an unknowable centre-point, which is called… — Malcolm Godwin Copy Share Image
If you want to hire great people and have them stay, you have to be run by ideas, not hierarchy. The best ideas have… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
Once you have hierarchy you need rules to protect and administer it, and then you need law and the enforcement of the rules, and… — William P. Young Copy Share Image
“The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do... ” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
“One way or another, we spend our whole lives being conditioned into accepting some line or order, some position of domination or subjection. It’s… — Cliff James Copy Share Image
I see anarchism as the theoretical ideal to which we are all gradually evolving to a point where everybody can tell the truth to… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The flatter the corporate hierarchy, the more likely it is that employees will communicate bad news and act upon it. — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
patriarchal academic hierarchies in science and technology are now overspecialized and abstract, perhaps because they have systematically excluded women, as well as minorities, with… — Hazel Henderson Copy Share Image
“Daimonology has no hierarchy, but only the spell of universal anarchy.” — Carl William Brown Copy Share Image
