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Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

February 05, 2023

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat is a book, credited to the pseudonym Archibald Putt, published in 1981. An updated edition, subtitled How to Win in the Information Age, was published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2006. The book is based upon a series of articles published in Research/Development Magazine in 1976 and 1977.

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
AuthorArchibald Putt (pseudonym)
IllustratorDennis Driscoll
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreIndustrial Management
PublisherWiley-IEEE Press
Publication date
28 April 2006
Media typePrint (hardcover)
Pages171 pages
ISBN0-471-71422-4
OCLC68710099
658.22
LC ClassHD31 .P855 2006

It proposes Putt's Law and Putt's Corollary[1] which are principles of negative selection similar to The Dilbert principle proposed by Scott Adams in the 1990s. Putt's law is sometimes grouped together with the Peter principle, Parkinson's Law and Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship series as "P-literature".[2]

Putt's Law

The book proposes Putt's Law and Putt's Corollary

  • Putt's Law: "Technology is dominated by two types of people, those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand."[3]
  • Putt's Corollary: "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion." with incompetence being "flushed out of the lower levels" of a technocratic hierarchy, ensuring that technically competent people remain directly in charge of the actual technology while those without technical competence move into management.[3]

References

  1. ^ Archibald Putt.  Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age,  Wiley-IEEE Press (2006), ISBN 0-471-71422-4. Preface.
  2. ^ John Walker (October 1981). "Review of Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat". New Scientist: 52.
  3. ^ a b Archibald Putt.  Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat: How to Win in the Information Age,  Wiley-IEEE Press (2006), ISBN 0-471-71422-4. page 7.

External links

  • Archibald Putt: The Unknown Technocrat Returns (spectrum.ieee.org)


 

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