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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
Peter Principle
 
NOUN: 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.
ETYMOLOGY:After Laurence Johnston Peter (1919–1990).
 
 
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  Peter Pan collar Petersburg  
 
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