The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison.

A committee grows organically, flourishes and blossoms, sunlit on top and shady beneath, until it dies, scattering the seeds from which other committees will spring.

The matters most debated in a deliberative body tend to be the minor ones where everybody understands the issues.

Deliberative bodies become decreasingly effective after they pass five to eight members.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.