“Occupational incompetence is everywhere. Have you noticed it? Probably we all have noticed it.”

Source: The Peter Principle (1969), p. 20 cited in: James Ike Schaap (2011) " The Peter Principle: Is This Forty-Year-Old Universal Phenomenon in Decline or Growing? http://www.jgbm.org/page/1%20James%20Ike%20Schaap%20.pdf"

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