Parkinson's Law: Or The Pursuit Of Progress
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What began as a satirical essay in The Economist in 1955 became one of the most quoted and enduring observations in the history of organisational theory: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson's Law: or The Pursuit of Progress by C. Northcote Parkinson chronicles the absurdities of bureaucratic expansion with razor-sharp wit, presenting a series of darkly comic yet devastatingly accurate essays on how institutions grow not out of necessity, but out of an inexorable internal momentum all their own. With illustrations by the celebrated Osbert Lancaster, the book dissects the workings of committees, civil services, and corporate hierarchies, unmasking the comic tragedy at the heart of modern administration. Parkinson writes with the precision of a historian and the timing of a born satirist, producing a work that is as much a sociological document as it is a comedy of manners. His arguments resonate far beyond the boardroom, illuminating the universal human tendencies toward inefficiency, self-importance, and the proliferation of unnecessary labour. Decades after its first publication, the Law remains a touchstone for anyone who has ever sat through a pointless meeting or watched an organisation hire its way into paralysis — leaving readers to wonder, with a wry smile, just how much of their own working lives its formula might explain.
Author: C. Northcote Parkinson
Format: Hardback
Genre: Humour
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Yellowed
What began as a satirical essay in The Economist in 1955 became one of the most quoted and enduring observations in the history of organisational theory: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson's Law: or The Pursuit of Progress by C. Northcote Parkinson chronicles the absurdities of bureaucratic expansion with razor-sharp wit, presenting a series of darkly comic yet devastatingly accurate essays on how institutions grow not out of necessity, but out of an inexorable internal momentum all their own. With illustrations by the celebrated Osbert Lancaster, the book dissects the workings of committees, civil services, and corporate hierarchies, unmasking the comic tragedy at the heart of modern administration. Parkinson writes with the precision of a historian and the timing of a born satirist, producing a work that is as much a sociological document as it is a comedy of manners. His arguments resonate far beyond the boardroom, illuminating the universal human tendencies toward inefficiency, self-importance, and the proliferation of unnecessary labour. Decades after its first publication, the Law remains a touchstone for anyone who has ever sat through a pointless meeting or watched an organisation hire its way into paralysis — leaving readers to wonder, with a wry smile, just how much of their own working lives its formula might explain.