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What exactly is the Peter Principle?

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The Oneness for Responsibility

Work expands so as to fill time available for its completion. If you give somebody a week to do a project they'll take a week, if you give them two days they'll get it done in two days. It's telling Murphy's law Yeah. Exactly. So yeah. The why Chuck just mentioned that is because one of the there's actually a contrary theory to the Peter principle. Oh is this Lazare? That's the he wrote a I'm sorry an article not a book called the Peter principle a theory of decline. Mm-hmm.

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