50th Anniversary of the Parkinson’s Law
June 23rd, 2008 | by LibertoPereda | published in anew, effectiveness, human resources, improvement, less is more, low information diet, management, parkinson
Cyril Northcote Parkinson launched this concept 50 years ago, in 1958. He carried a study about british Navy.
With time the concept has evolved and now comes to “the rate at which bureaucracies expand over time”.
An example:
We recruit somebody, give him/her an office, a laptop, a table and mobile phone, internet connection and eight hours. After [...]