Competing by Design

Abstract

detriment of their social and human consequences. A technocrat is analytical, intense, extremely rigid, methodical, uncompromising, detail-oriented, and often brilliant. Technocrats build walls around their emotions and lack self-knowledge. Perceiving themselves incapable of making mistakes, technocrats blame others for their faults. A technocrat's strategic vision, if it can be called that, is fixated on analyzing in excruciating detail the vision another has created. Incapable of creating themselves, Technocrats pass themselves off as brilliant because of their analytical and technical virtuosity. They're big on organizational charts. Very big on systems and structures and rules, Pitcher says.

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