Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat
Author Archibald Putt (pseudonym)
Illustrator Dennis Driscoll
Country United States
Language English
Genre Industrial Management
Publisher Wiley-IEEE Press
Publication date
28 April 2006
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':

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 in New Scientist. p. 52.
  3. 1 2 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.

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