Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Laurence Johnston Peterwas a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist", best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth16 September 1919
CountryCanada
leadership moving law
Most hierarchies are nowadays so cumbered with rules and traditions, and so bound in by public laws, that even high employees do not have to lead anyone anywhere, in the sense of pointing out the direction and setting the pace. They simply follow precedents, obey regulations, and move at the head of the crowd. Such employees lead only in the sense that the curved wooden figurehead leads the ship .
important literature committees
Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to be appointed to do the work.
men atheism literature
A man convinced against his will is not convinced.
parent luck faults
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.
change angel devil
The devil could change. He was once an angel and may be evolving still.
inspirational success lying
If at first you don't succeed, lie, lie again.
two people angry
It usually takes two people to make one of them angry.
holiday home college
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn't.
baths hot deals
Marriage is a good deal like taking a bath-not so hot once you get accustomed to it.
children giving rope
Give a child enough rope and he will trip you up.
feet persons
When a person puts his best foot forward and gets it stepped on, that's life.
pretty-woman photograph
There are more pretty photographs of women than there are photographs of pretty women.
government hierarchy incompetence
The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.
men discovery events
All science is concerned with the relationship of cause and effect. Each scientific discovery increases man's ability to predict the consequences of his actions and thus his ability to control future events.