英语词汇the peter principle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	the peter principle
词源	the Peter Principle. Dr. Laurence Peter and Raymond Hull’s book The Peter Principle (1969) became famous for its premise that “In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to the level of his incompetence.”
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