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

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Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item...

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Expansion means complexity and complexity decay.

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they...

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing...

The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing...

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

The smaller the function, the greater the management.

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the...

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess...

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

The man who is denied the opportunity of taking decisions of importance begins to regard...

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Delay is the deadliest form of denial.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure...

A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure...

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.

The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.