Parkinson's Law

Name: Parkinson's Law
ISBN: 9780345211132

C. Northcote Parkinson

140 pages · about 2 hours
First published 1968
6 editions

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1 About this book

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English wit and humor

2 About C. Northcote Parkinson

1909–1993

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson named the satirical Law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion" after himself.

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