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THE PETER PRINCIPLE as DEFINED BY WIKIPEDIA "The Peter Principle is stated in chapter 1 of the book with the same title: "In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence". It was formulated by Dr. Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull in their 1969 book The Peter Principle, a humorous treatise which also introduced the "salutary science of hierarchiology", "inadvertently founded" by L. J. Peter (deceased 12.1.1990). It holds that in a hierarchy, (and the Seventh-day Adventist Church leadership is definitely a hierarchy), members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they are promoted to a position at which they are no longer competent (their "level of incompetence"), (in Folkenberg's case president of the General Conference) and there they remain, being unable to earn further promotions (except perhaps, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church!). This principle can be modelled and has theoretical validity for simulations.[1] Peter's Corollary states that "in time, every post tends to be occupied by an employee who is incompetent to carry out their duties" and adds that "work is accomplished by those employees who have not yet reached their level of incompetence". Managing upward is the concept of a subordinate finding ways to subtly "manage" superiors in order to limit the damage that they end up doing." |
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AS DEMONSTRATED BY THE "REIGN" OF ROBERT FOLKENBERG IN THE SDA CHURCH and, of course, by a myriad of other SDA and other Christian ministers and "evangelists" who dare not ever have any original thoughts or beliefs along religious lines, lest they "rock Peter's boat" and be cast overboard before they retire on the coins from the mouth of the great fish! |