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Is there a rocket equation for bureaucracy? Something to model the exponentially growing efforts of a company that are spent self-support and bureaucracy as the
by dzdt 3y ago
Is there a rocket equation for bureaucracy? Something to model the exponentially growing efforts of a company that are spent self-support and bureaucracy as the amount of productive work scales up?
- ghaff 3y agoNo rocket equation but, if you want to go to the source, see Parkinson's Law (the original essay, not the shorthand aphorism). Which was actually even worse--productive work was not scaling up in the British Navy. I'm sure there are papers that have studied what happens specifically in business though.
- rlanday 3y agoYes, the original Parkinson’s Law paper contains an equation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson's_Law > The growth was presented mathematically with the formula x = (2k^m + P)/n, in which k was the number of officials wanting subordinates, m was the hours they spent writing minutes to each other. (check the original paper for details since this obviously doesn’t explain what n is)