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
Topics: Committees
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Value
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Procrastination
The Law of Triviality… briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Money
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Focus, Concentration
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Management
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 busiest man who has time to spare.”
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Procrastination, Work
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Work
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- Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian
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- Winston Churchill British Head of State
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