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British professor Cyril Northcote Parkinson coined a term for bureaucratic behaviour.
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson, appearing as the first sentence of a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955.
unknown title 2008
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“Small is beautiful” was not an intellectual gimmick of Schumacher’imagination, any more than the dictums of Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Drucker and Tom Peters, the management gurus, are good only for after-dinner speeches.
Archive 2007-04-15 Valleys Mam 2007
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“Small is beautiful” was not an intellectual gimmick of Schumacher’imagination, any more than the dictums of Cyril Northcote Parkinson, Drucker and Tom Peters, the management gurus, are good only for after-dinner speeches.
Simon Jenkins -reminds me of a positive economic theory Valleys Mam 2007
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Cyril Northcote Parkinson is best known for his eponymous Parkinson’s Law – work expands to fill the time allocated to it – but one of his lesser-known but equally perspicacious contributions was the definition of what has become known as "bicycle shed syndrome".
Bicycle shed syndrome Richard 2004
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