Yes, i remember it now, you are perfectly correct. . Didnt his wife have a law too? Which leads us to the Peter Principle*, which describes my social workers perfectly..... which brings us back to PD again - in so much as they are still trying to prove that PD makes me an incompetent mother. BUt i must re-iterate - the videos of Ivan's tv interviews have gone a long way to helping them understand a bit more! Hilary BLue *that a worker keeps on being promoted till he reaches his own level of incompetency William Harshaw wrote: > > Hilary, > > A nit: it was C. Northcote Parkinson. > > Cheers, > > Bill > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Hilary Blue" <[log in to unmask]> > To: <[log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 11:05 PM > Subject: nonpd: parkinson's law > > > if i remember correctly, Parkinson's law was named after someone called > Norman > > Prkinson, and goes something like this: > > > > Work expands to fill the time available > > > > Hilary Blue(50/33/24) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Michael Kamensky wrote: > > > > > > I did find one boo-boo though; there's a link for a book at Amazon.com > > > called "Parkinson's Law". I took the link, only to discover that it was > a > > > book on business strategies and tactics written by a guy named > Parkinson! > >