Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–93) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson’s Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar in public administration and management.
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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
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Management
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
Expenditures rise to meet income.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Value
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Procrastination
Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
—C. Northcote Parkinson
Topics: Work
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: Work, Procrastination
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