Expansion means complexity and complexity decay. |
The smaller the function, the greater the management. |
The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. |
The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself. |
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. |
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn. |
Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich. |
When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. |
Expenditures rise to meet income. |
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse. |
Delay is the deadliest form of denial. |
It is better to be a has-been than a never-was. |
The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard as important the decisions he is allowed to take. |
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. |
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. |
The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom. |
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. |