Bill Swanson of Raytheon is a Plagiarist!
[note: I "internalized" the title from Carl's blog entry]
A friend of mine recently discovered that Raytheon's CEO has been publishing and promoting a book entitled "The Unwritten Rules of Management" that is, in fact, largely (17 of 33 "rules") cribbed from an earlier (1944) publication by W.J. King, "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" (good luck getting a copy, it's been backordered four weeks or more).
Four other "rules" were taken from an article by Donald Rumsfeld in The Wall Street Journal, and one from Dave Barry.
Three or more articles in the NYT, more in Boston's Globe, and Herald, and just about everywhere else.
Here's one that compares Swanson's fate to the recent Harvard Student plagiarism scandal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/media/03leonhardt.html
Swanson had previously claimed to have written the "rules" himself (in a USAToday interview):
https://s100.copyright.com/DR/USATODAY/SM8SIe2CNrRgrLVWjHeHUw--.pdf
Here's the article (also USAToday) where many of the "rules" are written, allowing Carl (who possessed the original) to make his comparison:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-14-ceos-waiter-rule_x.htm
[Note: The "waiter rule" is the one taken from Dave Barry.]
His story changes when the discovery was made, however. Here Swanson says he never copied them from a book:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-24-raytheon-ceo-responds_x.htm
[edit: had that one wrong, at first...]
But in a recent press release a spokesmonkey for Raytheon also claimed that Swanson gave a "ghostwriter" a manila folder with notes, and also including the original W.J. King book (neatly putting the blame elsewhere.)
A friend of mine recently discovered that Raytheon's CEO has been publishing and promoting a book entitled "The Unwritten Rules of Management" that is, in fact, largely (17 of 33 "rules") cribbed from an earlier (1944) publication by W.J. King, "The Unwritten Laws of Engineering" (good luck getting a copy, it's been backordered four weeks or more).
Four other "rules" were taken from an article by Donald Rumsfeld in The Wall Street Journal, and one from Dave Barry.
Three or more articles in the NYT, more in Boston's Globe, and Herald, and just about everywhere else.
Here's one that compares Swanson's fate to the recent Harvard Student plagiarism scandal:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/business/media/03leonhardt.html
Swanson had previously claimed to have written the "rules" himself (in a USAToday interview):
https://s100.copyright.com/DR/USATODAY/SM8SIe2CNrRgrLVWjHeHUw--.pdf
Here's the article (also USAToday) where many of the "rules" are written, allowing Carl (who possessed the original) to make his comparison:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-14-ceos-waiter-rule_x.htm
[Note: The "waiter rule" is the one taken from Dave Barry.]
His story changes when the discovery was made, however. Here Swanson says he never copied them from a book:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2006-04-24-raytheon-ceo-responds_x.htm
[edit: had that one wrong, at first...]
But in a recent press release a spokesmonkey for Raytheon also claimed that Swanson gave a "ghostwriter" a manila folder with notes, and also including the original W.J. King book (neatly putting the blame elsewhere.)