Thursday, May 23, 2013

Reports surface that DOE Superintendent John White is out the door for Washington to further validate Peter Principle | Crazy Crawfish's Blog

Reports surface that DOE Superintendent John White is out the door for Washington to further validate Peter Principle | Crazy Crawfish's Blog:


Reports surface that DOE Superintendent John White is out the door for Washington to further validate Peter Principle

 Reblogged from Louisiana Voice:
In the late ‘60s psychologist Dr. Laurence J. Peter advanced what became known as the Peter Principle which said, in effect, that “In a hierarchically-structured administration, people tend to be promoted up to their level of incompetence.”
Put another way: “The cream rises until it sours.”
A good case in point, of course, would be Michael Brown, the notoriously inept head of FEMA, as evidence by his botched effort at coordinating recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
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I tried to ask him yesterday for his departure date so we could plan his going away party (for the next day) but he