"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."
C. NORTHCOTE PARKINSON (PARKINSON'S LAW)
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Parkinson's Law
It states that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”
It started from the observation that the duration of public administration expands to fill its allotted time span, regardless of the amount of work to be done. The same has been obs...
Set an ending time for tasks
Parkinson’s second law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Setting a micro deadline for daily tasks holds your brain accountable to the tick of the clock.
Parkinson’s law
“Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion,” the English humorist and historian Parkinson wrote in 1955.
And it doesn’t apply only to work. It applies to everything that needs doing.
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