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.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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More quotes by C. Northcote Parkinson
- 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.
- In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
- 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.
- Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.