Cyril Northcote Parkinson citáty
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Dátum narodenia: 30. júl 1909
Dátum úmrtia: 9. marec 1993
Ďalšie mená:Cyril N. Parkinson,Сирил Норткот Паркинсон
Cyril Northcote Parkinson bol britský historik a spisovateľ, autor Parkinsonových zákonov, ktoré sú výsledkom analýzy byrokratickych mechanizmov modernej spoločnosti.
Citáty Cyril Northcote Parkinson
„Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion“
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Context: 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.
Parkinson's Law . It is based on an article published in The Economist (November 1955).
„Delay is the deadliest form of denial.“
— C. Northcote Parkinson
The Law of Delay (1970).
„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.“
— C. Northcote Parkinson
Cited in:Lionel G. Titman (1990), The Effective Office: A Handbook of Modern Office Management. p. 117
„A perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.“
— C. Northcote Parkinson
p. 60; cited in: Craig Calhoun (2012), Contemporary Sociological Theory, p. 254
„The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.“
— C. Northcote Parkinson
p. 24. : Popularly known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality).
