So after my original post and then the warning, it’s official – the CEO of Raytheon admits that some of the rules in his 30 unwritten rules were in fact written, and by someone else – namely a california engineering professor some six decades ago. Full story and comments here. …
Now, most of the hits on my site from google are from people searching for Swanson’s rules of management. To any of them who actually get to my site, here is an article initially linked from Kottke that suggests Swanson’s rules are a rip-off from a much older book. You …
I got this article in my email a while ago. Probably worth reading from time to time just to keep yourself on track: Raytheon CEO turns lessons learned into hit booklet When William Swanson joined Raytheon as a young engineer in 1972, he was timid and sat quietly scribbling notes …