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Parkinson’s Law and Its Consequences

Parkinson’s law says: work expands to fill the time available. What are consequences of this?



“Hi, I’m Jay Arthur, author of “Lean Six Sigma Demystified” and QI Macros [software].

“You’ve probably heard of Parkinson’s Law. For some reason, I decided to go get Parkinson’s book out of our local library (from 1957; I was 6 years old at the time). Parkinson’s Law says ‘Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.’

“I don’t know about you, but sometimes in college, I would wait till the last day to actually do that paper that was due, but I knew about it for 3 weeks to a month or something [ahead of time], right?

Posted by Jay Arthur in Improvement Insights.