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Most people know the Peter Principle as a funny way of describing incompetence in an organisation. Very few people actually read the book, though. I decided to read it because I hoped to learn something about management. Well, I didn't learn much. The book is entirely meant as a joke, and the Peter Principle turns out to be just a funny one-liner in a book that otherwise lacks deep wisdom. I do not recommend this book as a management book. I also did not find the book very funny. Making up different stories to fit the Peter Principle and inventing all kinds of "Peter's this" and "Peter's that" simply did not strike me as very interesting. The book did not work well with my 2005 Danish sense of humour. Unless your sense of humour is very different from mine, the only reason why you should read this book is to be able to say that you have read a classic. A classic it is, though, with one very striking point, and that's why the book gets two and not one star from me.
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