“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”
Northcote Parkinson“Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.”
Northcote Parkinson“It might be termed the Law of Triviality. Briefly stated it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in adverse proportion to the sum involved.”
Northcote Parkinson“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“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.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“Expenditure rises to meet income.”
C. Northcote Parkinson“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
C. Northcote Parkinson