Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
— C. Northcote Parkinson, in Economist, 19 Nov 1955, quoted in Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations.
AUTHOR
Phil
172 postsYou may also like
For sure, life is more fun with an “attitude of gratitude”. A fine therapist friend of mine tells many of his clients […]
Politics is like baseball. If your team loses, you remember who struck out in the ninth inning, not who struck out in […]
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come […]
“To spend a few minutes with people is simply not productive… The manager who thinks that he can discuss the plans, direction, […]