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Parkinson's Law C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law By C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson


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Summary

Parkinson's law states that "work expands to fill the time available". This work explains how to meet the most important people at a social gathering and why, as a matter of mathematical certainty, the time spent debating an issue is inversely proportional to its objective importance.

Parkinson's Law Summary

Parkinson's Law: Or the Pursuit of Progress by C. Northcote Parkinson

Parkinson's Law states that 'work expands to fill the time available'. While strenuously denied by management consultants, bureaucrats and efficiency experts, the law is borne out by disinterested observation of any organization. The book goes far beyond its famous theorem, though. The author goes on to explain how to meet the most important people at a social gathering and why, as a matter of mathematical certainty, the time spent debating an issue is inversely proportional to its objective importance. Justly famous for more than forty years, Parkinson's Law is at once a bracingly cynical primer on the reality of human organization, and an innoculation against the wilful optimism to which we as a species are prone.

About C. Northcote Parkinson

C. N. Parkinson had a varied career as a writer. He is best known as the author of Parkinson's Law, but among other books he also wrote a biography of Horatio Hornblower, a series of naval novels and several history books (including Britannia Rules and The Rise of Big Business).

Additional information

GOR001383585
9780141186856
0141186852
Parkinson's Law: Or the Pursuit of Progress by C. Northcote Parkinson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Penguin Books Ltd
2002-09-05
128
N/A
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