Quotes from C. Northcote Parkinson

Expenditure rises to meet income.

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.

Expenditure rises to meet income.

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.

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from. Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.