Second, while
Parkinson's Law makes a prediction only about time commitment, we found that longer incidental deadlines increase monetary commitment.
So to return to your question: does
Parkinson's law of triviality apply to the [agency] procurement process?
Seneca thus pre-empted
Parkinson's Law that says, 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
"Murphy's Law and
Parkinson's Law have both contributed to an Olympics Law which says the bigger a thing becomes, the more problems it attracts and the sooner it hastens its own demise."
What we are now witnessing is the new '
Parkinson's Law of Subsidies'.
Harriss began his assessment of NATO with a description of its pricey new and futuristic glass and steel 2.7 million square-feet headquarters and the building's many amenities for its Brussels staff of 4,500, which he described as "a stately pleasure-dome for coddled fat cats" and a "perfect illustration of
Parkinson's Law" that bureaucratic expansion usually accompanies an organization's loss of its original raison d'etre: preventing a Soviet invasion of Western Europe.
Quiz of the Day ANSWERS: 1 Astronomy and navigation; 2 As ski-jumper 'Eddie the Eagle'; 3 The Glums; 4
Parkinson's Law; 5 Coronations of British monarchs; 6 Off-break; 7 Downton Abbey; 8 Great Britain and the United States; 9 F.W.
For example, consider Ecclesiastes 5:10, "As the bounty increases so increase the consumers thereof." To my understanding, this is in one sense a generalization of
Parkinson's Law, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" (C.
Anyone who needs to read each word of a letter or article in order to understand its essence or theme should at least be capable of recognising irony and
Parkinson's Law.
Parkinson's law says that work expands to fit the time available - tasks take as long as you give them.
I think I need to wade in here with Huntington's Inverse Law of Writer Behavior: "The need for any writer to ask for an emergency extension of his deadline is inversely related to the already lengthy amount of time they've had to finish the article." Which is closely connected with "
Parkinson's Law" which reads: "Work expands to fill the time allotted for its completion."
Northcote Parkinson, a British historian and author formulated
Parkinson's Law (Parkinson, 1958).
Without being pejorative, figures of this type tend to follow a derivative of
Parkinson's law, expanding to fit the available space on the balance sheet.
Whatever the merit of
Parkinson's Law, the blunt economic truth is that Birmingham is not doing as well as many of its competitor cities.
With application sizes doubling every 18 months according to Gate's Law and the associated file sizes growing at nearly the same rate as dictated by
Parkinson's Law, end-users are often finding data transfer times unacceptably slow on networks running at less than 1 Gb/s.