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单词 peter principle
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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
Peter Prin′ciple, 
  1. Businessany of several satirical "laws'' concerning organizational structure, esp. one that holds that people tend to be promoted until they reach their level of incompetence.
  • from the title of a book by Laurence J. Peter (blend of, blended 1919), Canadian educator

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
Peter Principle n
  1. the Peter Principlethe theory, usually taken facetiously, that all members in a hierarchy rise to their own level of incompetence
Etymology: 20th Century: from the book The Peter Principle (1969) by Dr. Lawrence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, in which the theory was originally propounded
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