Law, The, or Still in Pursuit

by C. Northcote Parkinson

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140057145
• ISBN13: 9780140057140
• Release Date: January 1981
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 1.0" x 1.0"

Customer Reviews

As relevant today as it was fifty years ago

It seems incredible that "Parkinson's Law" propounding the view that "Work expands to fill the time available for it's completion" was first published in 1957, fifty years ago this year. He later added a second law, "Expenditure rises to meet Income." This book, "The Law" was a revisit and update written in 1979. Formally this book is a work of humour, and C Northcote Parkinson alternates between genuine and imaginary statistics and examples to back up his arguments. But as the saying goes, many a true word is spoken in jest. Anyone who aspires to a position where he or she will be trusted with responsibility for spending public money should read Parkinson's amusing accounts of how and why money can be wasted and bureacracy tend to increase. Most of the examples given, though not all, are in a British context but the arguments would apply to the need to control the costs and size of bureaucracy and administration in any company or government in whichever part of the world the reader may be.