PARKINSONS LAW

PARKINSONS LAW

"Work expands to fill the time available for its completion." This law was discovered by C. Northcote Parkinsonand is documented in his books Parkinson's Law and Mrs Parkinson's law, and other studies in domestic science. Several other laws have been attributed to Parkinson, these include:

• Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
• Parkinson's Second Law: Expenditures rise to meet income.
• Parkinson's Third Law: Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay.
• Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.
• Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
• Parkinson's Law of Science: The progress of science varies inversely with the number of journals published.
• Parkinson's Law of Delay: Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
• Parkinson's Law of Data: Data expands to fill the space available.
• Parkinson's Law of Meetings: The time spent in a meeting on an item is inversely proportional to its value (up to a limit).
• Parkinson's Law of 1000: An enterprise employing more than 1000 people becomes a self-perpetuating empire, creating so much internal work that it no longer needs any contact with the outside world.
• Mrs. Parkinson's Law: Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.