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Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress

by Parkinson, C. Northcote

1958

Summary

Satirical collection of essays on bureaucracy and administration, including the famous law that ‘work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion’ and the Law of Triviality describing why committees waste disproportionate time on trivial matters

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ISBN: 978-0140091076

Topics

corporate_fare Bureaucracy psychology Decision Making speed Efficiency psychology_alt Critical Thinking

Quotes from this book

• Everyone Can Visualize a Bicycle Shed
• Inverse Proportion

Concepts from this book

• pedal_bike Law of Triviality (1958)