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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative, He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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
It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
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
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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
Expenditures rise to meet income.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
C. Northcote Parkinson
The smaller the function, the greater the management.
C. Northcote Parkinson
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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