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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
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"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its ...
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C. Northcote Parkinson, R I P. (British naval historian) (Editorial)
Magazine article from: National Review
; C Northcote Parkinson, who died in March at the age of 83, was at first glance a man...circuit. His subject entered the language-- Parkinson's Law : Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. Parkinson...
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Managing the workaholic (in you!): Have you ever seen a headstone that read, "If only I had spent more time at work"?(LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT)
Magazine article from: Healthcare Financial Management
; All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. --Proverb Work expands to fill the time available for its completion. --C. Northcote Parkinson If A is a success in life, then A equals X plus Y plus Z. Work is X; Y is play; and Z is keeping your...
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SERBIA: SERBIAN, RUSSIAN ACTIVISTS HONORED.(The Civil Courage Prize)(Brief Article)
Newspaper article from: IPR Strategic Business Information Database
; ...Civil Courage Prize and a gift of $50,000, awarded by the Northcote Parkinson Fund on 26 September for resisting evil at great personal...Gorbachev, Khodorovich moved to France, where he now lives. (Northcote Parkinson Fund, 22 September) Copyright (c) 1999. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted...
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Machine workplace sayings.(shop talk)
Magazine article from: Tooling & Production
; ...Murphy's Law--Whatever can go wrong, will. * Peter's Law--People are promoted to their level of incompetence. * Parkinson's Law--Work expands to fill the time available. Acronyms * SNAFU--situation normal, all fouled up * FUBAR--fouled up beyond all recognition...
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The more things change.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Tooling & Production
; ...Law -- Whatever can go wrong, will. * Peter's Law--People are promoted to their level of incompetence. * Parkinson's Law--Work expands to fill the time available. Acronyms * SNAFU--situation normal, all fouled up * FUBAR--fouled up beyond all recognition...
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Complex, tight-radius EDM work expands horizons for tool and die shop. (electric-discharge machining; Horizon Tool and Die Inc.) (Better Production)
Magazine article from: Modern Machine Shop
; When Horizon Tool & Die, Inc. opened its doors for business in 1987, the first EDM job that owners Pete and Dan Badovinac took on gave a good indication of the type of work the Schaumburg, Illinois shop was interested in doing. The job at hand? A carbide die that required 0.006 wide walls that
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Computers get their revenge. ('revenge effect' as applied to computers) (Computer Sense) (Column)
Magazine article from: Communication World
; ...computers, it seems. It wasn't too long ago, 1955 to be exact, when C. Northcote Parkinson put in writing in The Economist a theory that we all recognized as a truism: Work expands to fill the time. You know, just like junk expands to fill attic...
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Bureaucratic trend threatens PR's future. (public relations)
Magazine article from: Communication World
; ...delegators; memowriters and comitologists (the term C. Northcote Parkinson coined for the science of committee-sitting ) and we're...years ago when he first offered them up in The Economist. Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. His...
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Exodus from terror: Iraq's intellectuals, who had high hopes of a bright future in the post-Saddam era and should have been the country's salvation in the struggle to regroup and rebuild, are being driven out of their homeland by fear.(Iraq)
Magazine article from: The Middle East
; ...rights activist, was awarded the Civil Courage Prize, for steadfast resistance to evil at great personal risk , by the Northcote Parkinson Fund, a private US foundation that promotes political liberalism. The award was posthumous. Mayah was riddled with bullets...
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Labor, si! Unions, no!
Magazine article from: National Review
; ...conservative movement without ... labor unions is a ship without a hull, and there I cannot agree. I would riposte with C. Northcote Parkinson's observation that a labor union is a ship which exists for the benefit of its crew. But the lack of external purpose...
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