UK plc: A Confederacy of Dunces, Clones and Psychopaths?

The Peter Principle, the Negative Selection Principle, the Law of Unintended Consequences, the Procrustes Principle and the Psychopath Principle dictate that the UK will inevitably underperform.

Introduced by Canadian sociologist Dr. Laurence Johnston Peter, the Peter Principle is defined in The American Heritage Dictionary as: ‘

The theory that employees within an organization will advance to their highest level of competence and then be promoted to and remain at a level at which they are incompetent.’

According to Dr Peter, only those within a company who haven’t yet reached their level of incompetence perform any productive work, and long-established companies tend to have a much higher concentration of incompetent managers than new, growing companies.

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