Archibald Putt

Putts Law technology understand manage

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."

— Archibald Putt

Putts corollary technology incompetence flush management

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.

— Archibald Putt