Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

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• External reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat
• see,
  • Parkinson’s law,
  • Dilbert principle,

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.”

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat

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.

— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putt%27s_Law_and_the_Successful_Technocrat

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