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C. Northcote Parkinson

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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.


— C. Northcote Parkinson


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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


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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


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The smaller the function, the greater the management.


— C. Northcote Parkinson


#greater #management #smaller

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.


— C. Northcote Parkinson


#any #inverse #involved #item #proportion

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.


— C. Northcote Parkinson


#beyond #body #entity #expands #members






About C. Northcote Parkinson






Did you know about C. Northcote Parkinson?

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958 and the University of Illinois and the University of California Berkeley in 1959–60 he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity. Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Domestic Science (1968)
The Law of Delay (1970)
The fur-lined mousetrap (1972)
The Defenders Script for a "Son et Lumière" in Guernsey (1975)
Gunpowder Treason and Plot (1978)
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Discusses Political Science with Julian H. In 1958 while still in Singapore Parkinson publiC. Northcote Parkinsond his most famous work Parkinson's Law a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first publiC. Northcote Parkinsond in the Economist magazine in November 1955 satirizing government bureaucracies.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.

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