Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
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| Author | Archibald Putt (pseudonym) |
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| Illustrator | Dennis Driscoll |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Industrial Management |
| Publisher | Wiley-IEEE Press |
Publication date | 28 April 2006 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover) |
| Pages | 171 pages |
| ISBN | 0-471-71422-4 |
| OCLC | 68710099 |
| 658.22 | |
| LC Class | HD31 .P855 2006 |
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.
It proposes 'Putt's Law' and 'Putt's Corollary'[1] which are principles of negative selection similar to The Dilbert principle by Scott Adams proposed 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."[3] 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.
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ John Walker (October 1981, p. 52). review in New Scientist.
{{cite book}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ 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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