| Norlander | Peter's laws - The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive |
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1. If anything can go wrong, Fix it! (To hell with Murphy!)
2. When given a choice -- Take both!
3. Multiple projects lead to multiple successes.
4. Start at the top and work your way up.
5. Do it by the book...but be the author!
6. When forced to compromise, ask for more.
7. If you can't beat them, join them, and then beat them.
8. If it's worth doing, it's got to be done right now.
9. If you can't win, change the rules.
10. If you can't change the rules, ignore them.
11. When faced without a challenge, make one.
12. "No" simply means begin again at the next highest level.
13. Don't walk when you can run.
14. Bureaucracy is a challenge to the be conquered with a righteous attitude, an intolerance for stupidity, and bulldozer when necessary.
15. When in doubt: THINK!
16. Patience is a virtue but persistence to the point of success is a blessing.
17. The squeaky wheel gets replaced.
18. The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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| Norlander | RE: Peter's laws - The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive |
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| | Location: Copenhagen | | Joined: 09.06.06 | | Posted on 05-10-2008 04:34 |
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I'm down with several of these
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith |
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| Roffen | RE: Peter's laws - The Creed of the Sociopathic Obsessive Compulsive |
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| | Location: Copenhagen | | Joined: 12.11.06 | | Posted on 05-10-2008 10:32 |
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Putting on a flameproof jacket, and then stating that:
Murphy originally said something in the lines of:
"If there's more than one possible outcome of a job or task, and one of those outcomes will result in disaster or an undesirable consequence, then somebody will do it that way"
This is much like Bushism, twisting good proverbs into something downright stupid. Peter is a stupid man!
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Edited by Roffen on 05-10-2008 10:35 |
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