C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Most popular C. Northcote Parkinson Quotes

Delay is the deadliest form of denial. - C. Northcote Parkinson quote.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
— C. Northcote Parkinson The Law of Delay

delay

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson quote.
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson

work

It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - C. Northcote Parkinson quote.
It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson The Economist

work

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 quote.
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

Meetings

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. He has been essentially defeated by his job. - C. Northcote Parkinson quote.
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. He has been essentially defeated by his job.
— C. Northcote Parkinson

bureaucracy office

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 quote.
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.

committees

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

work