Published in the mid-1950’s — Parkinson’s laws are still very relevant today.PARKINSON’S LAW: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
- “An official wants to multiply subordinates, not rivals”
- “Officials make work for each other.”
PARKINSON’S SECOND LAW: Expenditure rises to meet income.PARKINSON’S THIRD LAW: Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.THE LAW OF DELAY: Delay is the deadliest form of denial.THE LAW OF TRIVIALITY: The time spent on any item of a committee’s agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum of money involved.INJELITANCE: A vital Parkinson contribution was his diagnosis of why certain organizations suddenly deteriorate: the rise to authority of individuals with unusually high combinations of incompetence and jealousy (“injelitance”).
