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Thursday, 27 July 2006
Archibald Putt is the pseudonym of a man whose contributions in science, engineering, and R&D management are well known.

His infamous book, Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat, was first published in 1981 and achieved cult status for its scathing satire about the way technology companies behave. "Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion," says Putt, in his most oft-quoted corollary. Readers of Putt's Law will learn such valuable techno-Machiavellian skills as how to leverage failure and how to beat out colleagues who are always right.

We can't break Putt's anonymity by sharing a video with you, but we can share an excerpt from the 25th anniversary remake of Putt's Law.

In this excerpt, Archibald Putt shows he's learned a lot from bloggers and others on the Internet. Putt's third law of decision making reads, "A decision is judged by the conviction with which it is uttered." Sounds like a page from the bloggers' handbook, doesn't it?

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