Meng Zhu

Hi.

Yes.

So it all started with a humorous essay published in The Economist in 1955 titled,

The author was C. Northcote Parkinson, who was a British naval historian.

So he summarized the law in the first sentence of his essay that basically says, "...work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion."

field tests across a variety of contexts, such as wood harvesters, steel industry, school system.

It has been a main topic for management training.

How do you fight Parkinson's law?

Yeah, that's the thing.

I think people intuitively agree with his logic arguments.