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Parkinson's law

nouna law, based on wide experience, that in business the amount of work increases to fill the time available for it. The principle is named after the book written in 1958 by C. Northcote Parkinson.

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  1. Parkinson's law - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Parkinson's law is the adage first articulated by Cyril Northcote Parkinson as part of the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955: ...
     
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  4. Parkinson's Law: C. Northcote Parkinson: 9781568490151: Amazon ...
    C. N. Parkinson had a varied career as a writer. He is best known as the author of Parkinson's Law, but among other books he also wrote a biography of Horatio ...
     
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  6. Parkinson's law and productivity » Academic Productivity
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  7. From the archive: Parkinson's Law | The Economist
    Jul 10, 2009 ... IT is a commonplace observation that work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Thus, an elderly lady of leisure can spend ...
     
  8. Parkinson's Law, by Prof. Cyril Northcote Parkinson
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