Frasi di Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Cyril Northcote Parkinson è stato uno storico navale britannico autore di una sessantina di libri, il più famoso dei quali, il bestseller La legge di Parkinson , lo portò ad essere considerato anche un importante studioso nel campo della pubblica amministrazione. Wikipedia  

✵ 30. Luglio 1909 – 9. Marzo 1993   •   Altri nomi Cyril N. Parkinson, Сирил Норткот Паркинсон
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

Parkinson's Law . It is based on an article published in The Economist (November 1955).
Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957)
Contesto: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion... Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must reflect a growing volume of work to be done. Cynics, in questioning this belief, have imagined that the multiplication of officials must have left some of them idle or all of them able to work for shorter hours. But this is a matter in which faith and doubt seem equally misplaced. The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson's Law and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish, or even disappear. The importance of Parkinson's Law lies in the fact that it is a law of growth based upon an analysis of the factors by which that growth is controlled.

“A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.”

Origine: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254

“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.”

Cited in:Lionel G. Titman (1990), The Effective Office: A Handbook of Modern Office Management. p. 117
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)

“Expansion means complexity, and complexity decay.”

Cited in: Ian Charles Jarvie (2014), Towards a Sociology of the Cinema (ILS 92). p. 34
In-laws and Outlaws, (1962)

“The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.”

Origine: Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Administration. (1957), p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).

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