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The pithy quote is just the opening sentence to the piece. The substance is far more interesting and describes a law about the growth of bureaucracies. I strong
by User23 7y ago
The pithy quote is just the opening sentence to the piece. The substance is far more interesting and describes a law about the growth of bureaucracies. I strongly recommend anyone interested to just read the whole thing, because it's only 5 pages.
[1]https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf
edit: Thanks. Fixed.
- jsweojtj 7y agohttps://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf https://www.berglas.org/Articles/parkinsons_law.pdf
- curuinor 7y agoParkinson also expanded it into a very short book.
- hinkley 7y agoI find this recursively brilliant. I wonder how much, or if, he had to fight with the publishers about padding the page count.
- greenyouse 7y agoWhy doesn't manager A, who is manager of official A, keep track of the work that official A does? That person could deny the unnecessary budget for more underlings and hold official A to be accountable for their work. I don't think these can really be called statistical proofs either. There are some proof like axioms but it's being applied to social orders where there's nothing very logical happening. The original paper was published in 1955. Now that we have issue tracking software which management can easily use to determine the efficiency of each worker, isn't this type of bureaucratic bloat a bit harder?
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- Joof 7y agoWould you consider issues to be easily measurable in terms of work required? Given more time would you clean up those unit tests and cover some additional cases?