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The Peter Principle

What You Will Learn

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Eventually, You're Going to Suck at It

Peters Prophylactics is a strategy to deliberately avoid promotion so that you can be happy in your job. The whole point here is creative incompetence. You can be quite selective with the task you're going to be incompetent at. Am you don't have to detract from your actual work. Migt, sleep up. Ia, few areas like, maybe don't shave, miss a few buttons, don't put your tie on,. smudge a bit of lip stick on your tooth a, all sorts of things. Maybe don't wish you proby need to wear shoes, smell a bit, all that sort of stuff. And they're going to go, we're not

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