Function Quote by C. Northcote Parkinson Download Open image “The smaller the function, the greater the management.” — C. Northcote Parkinson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Function Greater Management
The lower the rank of managers, the more they know about fewer things. The higher the rank of managers, the less they know about… — Russell L. Ackoff Copy Share Image
“the larger the staff, the more important it becomes to make sure responsibility is owned by individuals and not by the group.” — Duffy Robbins Copy Share Image
“The key to better management in that case becomes to inspire your people, to trust them to do the right thing, and then get… — BusinessNews Publishing Copy Share Image
“An organization will tend to grow only when the advantages that can be gotten from directing the work of additional employees are less than… — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Management capability is always less than the organization actually needs. — Robert Heller Copy Share Image
Managers today have to do more with less, and get better results from limited resources, more than ever before. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Manager' is a title, not a function. It's better to be one than not. Since you spend all day doing the job of the… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
People of great ability do not emerge, as a rule, from the happiest background. So far as my own observation goes, I would conclude… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
No king or minister could have instructed Newton to discover the law of gravity, for they did not know and could not know that… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will… — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
If I had to guess and put a name on it, I'd say that at some point, the drug war was as much a… — David Simon Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
[Islam] Leaves no room of human legislation in an Islamic state, because herein all legislative functions vest in God and the only function left… — Abul A'la Maududi Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
Much of what I saw in Geneva really disillusioned me about how my government functions and what its impact is in the world. I… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
. . . to know the order of nature, and regard the universe as orderly is the highest function of the mind. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
The thing about living alone is that it gives you a lot of time to think. You don't necessarily reach any conclusions, because wisdom… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image