Who should you promote to improve the efficiency of your organization?
"Peter Principle Revisited: a Computational Study" by A.Pluchino, A.Rapisarda and C.Garofalo, Physica A 389 (2010) 467(http://arxiv.org/abs/0907.0455)
Based on an original idea of Lawrence J.Peter
L.J.Peter, R.Hull, "The Peter Principle: why things always go wrong" (1969) New York: William Morrow and Company.
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PETER PRINCIPLE REVISITED: SIMULATION |
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Ig-Nobel Prize 2010 for Management to Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda and Cesare Garofalo University of Catania (ITALY) and INFN FOR demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if promotions were made at random! |
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Peter Principle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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