Re: nonpd: parkinson's law

[Hilary Blue <azure2@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, i remember it now,  you are perfectly correct. . Didnt his wife have a
law too?
Which leads us to the Peter Principle*, which describes my social workers 
perfectly.....
which brings us back to PD again - in so much as they are still trying to
prove that PD makes me an incompetent mother. BUt i must re-iterate - the
videos of Ivan's tv interviews have gone a long way to helping them understand
a bit more!

Hilary BLue

*that a worker keeps on being promoted till he reaches his own level of 
incompetency



William Harshaw wrote:
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> Hilary,
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> A nit: it was C. Northcote Parkinson.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hilary Blue" <azure2@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <PARKINSN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:05 PM
> Subject: nonpd: parkinson's law
>
> > if i remember correctly, Parkinson's law was named after someone called
> Norman
> > Prkinson, and goes something like this:
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> > Work expands to fill the time available
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> > Hilary Blue(50/33/24)
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> > Michael Kamensky wrote:
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> > > I did find one boo-boo though; there's a link for a book at Amazon.com
> > > called "Parkinson's Law". I took the link, only to discover that it was
> a
> > > book on business strategies and tactics written by a guy named
> Parkinson!
> >