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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.
Expenditures rise to meet income.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.... (more C. Northcote Parkinson quotes)
| Parkinson's law: Or, The pursuit of progress / C. Northcote Parkinson ; with illus. by Osbert Lancaster by C. Northcote Parkinson | |
| The law of delay; interviews and outerviews by C. Northcote Parkinson. With illus. by Osbert Lancaster by C. Northcote (Cyril Northcote) (1909-) Parkinson | |
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Biography - Parkinson, C. Northcote (1909-1993): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team |