Parkinson's Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline. If I give you 24 hours to complete a project, the time pressure forces you to focus on execution, and you have no choice but to do only the bare essentials. If I give... See more
‘Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,’ the English humorist and historian C. Northcote Parkinson wrote in 1955, coining what became known as Parkinson’s law.5 But
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Parkinson’s Law (or it’s inverse) holds true here:Work expands or contracts to fill the time available for its completion.
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Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson
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Parkinson's law states that work expands to fill the time available for its completion.
So no matter how many people you allocate to a task, they will feel busy.
Due to the excess of time, they'll start focusing on less important tasks.
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Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
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In 1955, a modern philosopher named C. Northcote Parkinson came up with the counterintuitive Parkinson’s Law: that the demand for something expands to match its supply.
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“Work expands so as to fill up the time available for its completion.”