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Title: Parkinson's Law by C. Northcote Parkinson ISBN: 1-56849-015-1 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: December, 1996 Format: Library Binding Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.67 (15 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Parkinson Isn't The Enemy After All
Comment: I've always considered Parkinson's Law to be the chief weapon of inept managers who "schedule aggressively" in an attempt to squeeze blood from stones, and thus compromise their project's effeciency, morale, and the like. After reading this book I've discovered that Parkinson's Law is *not* the often misquoted "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" but (paraphrasing:) "the number of administrators in an organization will grow at a steady rate irrespective of the amount of work that organization needs to do." Not only does Parkinson never suggest that we should "schedule aggressively" (he never suggests that work can contract indefinitely no matter how little time is made available), he ridiculues nice offices, large meetings, top-heavy management, insecure leadership, penny-wiseness and pound-foolishness, typical hiring practices, and more.
While reading most of this book I had a wry grin on my face, and I laughed loud belly laughs at a couple of points. My only complaints stem from the last two chapters, which indulged in both racism and ageism, respectively. I only skimmed those. Still, an enjoyable and motivational read, and useful knowledge when confronted by a manager who thinks of themself as Parkinsonian but hasn't actually read (or understood) Parkinson.
Rating: 5
Summary: Do you understand the things or are you a moron?
Comment: Hi,
This is one of the best and most valuable books (with balls) I ever read, about the only things that matters in the live of the adult - I mean your freedom.
Learn how government evolves to the killing machine (I experience that) or why you must fight with the all nonsense bureaucracy.
It just shows the fundamental mechanisms and threats you found and will find in your contacts with bureaucratics machine.
Not only worth of reading - read it and advertise to all you care about...
Like even more fun? (and rage) - read "The adventures of Jonathan Gullible" by Ken Schoolland. Then we'll can talk ;-)
Rating: 5
Summary: The sine qua non of rules that organizations live by!
Comment: This is one of more seminal books ever written. Once you read it you will NEVER again look at time management, the British Admiralty, a Board Meeting or a cocktail party in the same way. "Work expands to fill the time allotted to its completion" is the first and most famous rule, but the others (and the stories that illustrate them) are just as hilarious and dead on. Run, don't walk, to get this book, and you will be quoting and remembering it for the rest of your life.
While you're at it (and if you have a really dry, British and warped sense of humor), don't forget to check out "Gamesmanship" and "Lifemanship" by Stephen Potter.
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Title: The Peter Principle by Laurence J. Peter, Raymond Hull ISBN: 1568491611 Publisher: Buccaneer Books Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Times by Laurence J. Peter ISBN: 0688119093 Publisher: HarperResource Pub. Date: March, 1993 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Famous Financial Fiascos by John Train, Pierre Le-Tan, C. Northcote Parkinson ISBN: 0870341200 Publisher: Fraser Publishing Co. Pub. Date: December, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: How to Lie With Statistics by Darrell Huff, Irving Geis ISBN: 0393310728 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: November, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Managing Human Behavior in Public and Nonprofit Organizations by Maria P. Aristigueta, Robert B. Denhardt, Janet Vinzant Denhardt ISBN: 0761924744 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $69.95 |
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