Second, while
Parkinson's Law makes a prediction only about time commitment, we found that longer incidental deadlines increase monetary commitment.
Why we procrastinate when we have long deadlines
So to return to your question: does
Parkinson's law of triviality apply to the [agency] procurement process?
On the Campaign couch... with jb
Seneca thus pre-empted
Parkinson's Law that says, 'work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Call of the New Year
"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."
TWEDDLE EYES GOLDEN SHOT; GYMNASTICS
What we are now witnessing is the new '
Parkinson's Law of Subsidies'.
Mixed-up thinking behind the turbines; LETTERS
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.
NATO reconsidered
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.
Quiz of the Day
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.
A word from the editor
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.
Ponderous reading
Parkinson's law says that work expands to fit the time available - tasks take as long as you give them.
Ten Minute Know-How: Time Management
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."
The laws
Northcote Parkinson, a British historian and author formulated
Parkinson's Law (Parkinson, 1958).
Analysis of application of 1:3 ratio in employments of academic and non-academic staff in Nigerian Universities
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.
Horse Racing: How far is too far? Chief correspondent James Willoughby on the Motivator row
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.
LETTERS & OPINION: Makeover vital
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.
Siemon exceeds one million 10G-ready copper ports world-wide