Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. General recognition of this fact is shown in the proverbial phrase "It is the busiest man who has time to spare."

Administrators make work for each other so that they can multiply the number of their subordinates and enhance their prestige.

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

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

The smaller the function, the greater the management.