Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat is a book, credited to the pseudonym 'Archibald Putt', published in 1981. An updated edition, subtitled How to Win in the Information Age, was published by Wiley-IEEE Press in 2006. The book is based upon a series of articles published in Research/Development Magazine in 1976 and 1977.

It proposes 'Putt's Law' and 'Putt's Corollary' which are principles of negative selection similar to The Dilbert principle by Scott Adams proposed in the 1990s. Putt's law is sometimes grouped together with the Peter principle, Parkinson's Law and Stephen Potter's Gamesmanship series as "P-literature".