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C. Northcote Parkinson

Cyril Northcote Parkinson was a naval historian and author of some sixty books. He was educated at Cambridge, and went on to teach in Malaya, and in the United States at Harvard and in Illinois.

He was an important scholar in the field of public administration.

His most famous work is Parkinson’s Law, or The Pursuit of Progress.


“The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.”
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“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”
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“The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation. ”
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