The timeline of the narrative does seem a little confusing, but it's not wrong. Some of the rules were published by King as part of The Unwritten Laws of Engin

The timeline of the narrative does seem a little confusing, but it's not wrong. Some of the rules were published by King as part of The Unwritten Laws of Engineering in 1944. The whole collection of rules were published by Swanson as The Unwritten Laws of Management, after his own powerpoint presentation.