Buttocractic oath

The ancient, sacred, creed by which all persons charged with the grave responsibility of middle management live: primum nil errare:

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“First, do no harm to your own career”.

Eymology corner: often widely misspelled buttocratic — product of a confusion with the medico’s Hippocratic Oath — named for the Greek doctor, Hippocrates — buttocractic, with a “c”, in fact comes from buttocraxis (βυτοκρακτική, sympolised by the Greek lowercase omega ω) the ancient theological disposition of being elsewhere when blame is attributed.

See also

• Control function
• Plausible deniability
• Agency problem