Parkinson's Law¶
Parkinson, C. N. (1955). Parkinson's Law. The Economist.
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Primes¶
- Parkinson's Law
- Parkinson's original 1955 formulation, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," is one substrate-instance of a deeper structural pattern: when a task with elastic boundaries is paired with a container that has hard limits, the boundary-finding process runs toward the container wall rather than toward the task's intrinsic sufficiency.
This sourceOriginal formulation — the essay opens "It is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" — drawn from the growth of British Admiralty clerical staff.
- Parkinson's original 1955 formulation, "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion," is one substrate-instance of a deeper structural pattern: when a task with elastic boundaries is paired with a container that has hard limits, the boundary-finding process runs toward the container wall rather than toward the task's intrinsic sufficiency.
Domain-specific¶
- Meeting Inflation
- The cure must match which dynamic put the meeting on the calendar. Not Parkinson's law restated. Parkinson's "work expands to fill the time available" has the inverse character
This sourceThe essay that states the law this entry contrasts itself with - 'it is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion' - and the corollary that officials multiply independently of the work to be done.
- The cure must match which dynamic put the meeting on the calendar. Not Parkinson's law restated. Parkinson's "work expands to fill the time available" has the inverse character
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