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The Peter Principle is a management and hierarchy theory that gained popularity through the 1969 book The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull. According to this principle, every employee in a hierarchy tends to be promoted to a level at which they are no longer competent. The principle has become a concept studied from both sociological and economic perspectives regarding the functioning of organizational structures and employees’ career developm