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The Peter Pyramid: Or, Will We Ever Get the Point?
The Peter Pyramid Or Will We Ever Get the Point Author:Laurence J. Peter Dr. Peter skillfully attacks bureaucracy, illustrating the many ways in which proliferating hierarchies sap human resources. He proposes that the problem with major organizations is that they are constructed upside-down, with the point of the operation all but invisible beneath the bulk of a top-heavy administration. The average bure... more »aucrat is so busy keeping his job that he has no time to do it. Technology magnifies the problem by affording multiple opportunities for mindless escalation-which officials are more than happy to take advantage of-but we need not allow the information explosion to bury us in an avalanche of irrelevancies.« less