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C. Northcote Parkinson [1909-1993] British
Rank: 102
Historian, Naval historian


Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law, which led him to be also considered as an important scholar in public administration and management.

Politics, Time, Work



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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.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Time, Work
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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
103
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.
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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.
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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. Politics
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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.
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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.
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The smaller the function, the greater the management.
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Expenditures rise to meet income.
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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.
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Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
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