Daniel Lyons' Notes

Parkinson's Law

Parkinson's law can refer to either of two observations, published in 1955 by the naval historian C. Northcote Parkinson as an essay in The Economist:1(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law#cite_note-original-1)

  • "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion",
  • the number of workers within public administrationbureaucracy or officialdom tends to grow, regardless of the amount of work to be done. This was attributed mainly to two factors: that officials want subordinates, not rivals, and that officials make work for each other.
Parkinson's Law
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