> Does anyone have a link, by any chance? C. Northcote Parkinson, 1955. http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 "A glanc

> Does anyone have a link, by any chance? C. Northcote Parkinson, 1955. http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 http://www.economist.com/node/14116121 "A glance at the figures shows that the staff totals represent automatic stages in an inevitable increase. And this increase, while related to that observed in other departments, has nothing to do with the size - or even the existence - of the Empire." What I don't know is where Parkinson got his own figures from. Some of them are cited in the article, but I think not this one.