# The Peter Principle

> book and concept by Laurence J. Peter that states that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence"

**Wikidata**: [Q497359](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q497359)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. BBC Things
3. Quora
4. American Folklore Society Ethnographic Thesaurus