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Putt's Law seems totally different.

* 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."

* 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.

In the Peter model, everyone gets (or tends to get) promoted until they reach a job they can't do, and they stay there. Thus everyone will (tend to) be incompetent. In Putt's model, the technically incompetent get promoted, and those at lower levels are competent.

Putt's does sound more like the way the world works...maybe. Peter's has always sounding convincing to me, yet the world evidently isn't so bad as that.




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