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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Deadliest Delay Denial Form

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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Agenda Any Inverse Involved Item Proportion Spent Sum Time Will

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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.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Bloom Committee Committees Dies Flowers Grows Mechanical Nature Organic Other Plant Rather Root Seed Structure Takes Than Turn Which Will

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

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Available Completion Fill Time Work

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The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Allowed Begins Decisions Denied He Importance Important Man Opportunity Regard Take Taking Who

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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Boredom Chief Deepening Product Sense Society Widespread

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Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Achieved Collapse Institutions Layout Only Perfection Planned Point

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When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Any Beyond Body Entity Members Organizational Power Real Real Power Smaller Some Will

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It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Better Has-Been Than

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The smaller the function, the greater the management.

~C. Northcote Parkinson

Topics: Function Greater Management Smaller

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: June 30th, 1909

Died: March 9th, 1993

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