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Cyril Northcote Parkinson (1909–1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which he advanced Parkinson's law, stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". [1] This bibliography covers writing about Parkinson ...
This was the main focus of the essay by Cyril Northcote Parkinson, published in The Economist in 1955, [1] [7] and reprinted with other similar essays in the successful 1958 book Parkinson's Law: The Pursuit of Progress. [8] The book was translated into many languages. It was highly popular in the Soviet Union and its sphere of influence. [9]
Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced the eponymous law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", [1] an insight which led him to be regarded as an important scholar in public ...
She suffered from Parkinson’s disease and died in 2021 at age 87. The book, "Notes to John," will be published in hardcover and ebook by Knopf on April 22. Penguin Random House will release the ...
The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. [1] Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what ...
Richard Delancey is the hero of a series of novels by historian C. Northcote Parkinson. [1] Delancey is a citizen of the Island of Guernsey who rises, through merit, through the Royal Navy, during its late 18th-century wars with America and France.