Hendrickson’s Law
E. R. Hendrickson
If you have enough meetings over a long enough period of time, the meetings become more important than the problem the meetings were intended to solve.
Lance’s Law
Bert Lance
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Lowery’s Law
William P. Lowery
Just when you get really good at something you don’t need it anymore.
Mrs. Parkinson’s Law
Anon
Heat produced by pressure expands to fill the mind available, from which it can pass only to a cooler mind.
Murphy’s Second Law
Edward A. Murphy
Everything takes longer than you expect.
Ohm’s Law
Georg Simon Ohm
The electric current in any circuit is directly proportional to the voltage and inversely proportional to the resistance.
Parkinson’s Fourth Law
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Delay is the deadliest form of denial.
Parkinson’s Law
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Parkinson’s Law of Triviality
Cyril Northcote Parkinson
The time spent on any item of the [meeting] agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. Thus a £10 million-project may be approved in two-and-one-half minutes, while an expenditure of £2,350 - a much easier sum to comprehend for a much smaller item, something easier to visualise - will be debated for an hour and a quarter, then deferred for decision to the next meeting pending the gathering of more information.
Pym’s Law
John Pym
Actions speak louder than words.
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