Power tends to Corrupt


Work is done by those who understand what they do not manage and dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
-- Putt's Law



The American ethos is realistic about human corruptibility. The Constitution codifies a system of checks and balances based on the principle that unconstrained power tends to be abused. Puritan notions and the framers knowledge of history went into the separation of powers that is now considered to be integral to sound governance. Neglect of both the premises and the principle of constraint in corporate management has made business entities into hierarchies of self-serving ambition in an environment of intimidation and counterproductive, networked incompetence. Business has become the domain of an aristocracy. Nearly every working person contends with the resulting dysfunction on a daily basis. Working dangerously is to acknowledge the pervasiveness of bad management while trying to remain employed.

Turn the other cheek and read this blog for perspective. It's cheaper than a psychiatrist.


Thursday, August 11, 2011

Objection to Management Decisions...

Objection to management decisions is undesirable when you are wrong and unforgivable when you are right.
-- Archibald Putt

Originator of Putt's Law: Those who understand technology do not manage, and those who manage do not understand.  And the corollary: Every technical hierarchy over time develops a competence inversion.

An audio interview with the author is available at IT Conversations
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail1698.html#
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