A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie… - C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busie…
- C. Northcote Parkinson
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. - C. Northcote Parkinson
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless. - C. Northcote Parkinson
Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes… - C. Northcote Parkinson
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. He becomes…
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. - C. Northcote Parkinson
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. - C. Northcote Parkinson
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. - C. Northcote Parkinson
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law t… - C. Northcote Parkinson
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that there was such a law t…
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. - C. Northcote Parkinson
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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