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This Man Changed Productivity Forever #shorts

2023-03-18 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:58 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial

Ali tells how Cyril Parkinson, reviewing the British civil service in 1955, found staff numbers doubling without more work and formulated Parkinson's law, and advises setting yourself a deadline.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Cyril Parkinson's civil-service review, Parkinson's law and the advice to set a deadline

  • ★★ In 1955 Cyril Parkinson was asked to review the efficiency of the British civil service and found that the number of government employees had doubled over the previous 25 years with no matching increase in work. — 00:00:00
  • ★ Cyril Parkinson traced the growth in civil servants to what he called work expansion: the more people in a department, the more work was created to justify their employment. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Parkinson's law, as Ali explains it: work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion, so the more time you give yourself for a task, the longer it takes. — 00:00:29

    “work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion”

Mentioned

Central: Cyril Parkinson · Parkinson's law

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