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76 PCB007 MAGAZINE I APRIL 2023 ment demands risk but survival is achieved through risk reduction." First Law of Survival: "To get along, go along." Second Law of Survival: "To protect your position, fire the fastest rising employees first." Chapter 9: Five Laws of Decision-making Our intrepid explorer of the technological hierarchy looks at the complex process of mak- ing up the corporate mind. He finds, and sets down here, five rules that should be invaluable to the upward-oriented technologist. First Law of Decision-making: "Managers make decisions." Second Law of Decision-making: "Any decision is better than no decision." ird Law of Decision-making: "A decision is judged by the conviction with which it is uttered." Fourth Law of Decision-making: "Technical analyses have no value above the mid-management level." Fih Law of Decision-making: "Decisions are justified by benefits to the organization. Decisions are made by consid- ering benefits to the decision-makers." Chapter 10: Laws of Reward and Punishment "If your organization is in a state of malevo- lent stagnation, as defined here by our hierar- chiologist, there's little hope." But you should at least read his remarks to find out how you got there. e Law of Failure clearly reveals: "Failure to fail fully is a fool's folly." e A-B-C-D reward system (Figure 5) exists in technical hierarchies: • A for Innovative: "Reward big failures and successes. Punish small failures." • B for Aggressive: "Although logical, the outcome of a project cannot be deter- mined before its completion and those punished too oen cease to try. All hierarchies experience hierarchiological aging , which moves B to C." Figure 4: Five Laws of Decision-making. Figure 5: The four Reward-Punishment Systems.