Word: parkinson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard took a punt on its own 32, and Mike Bassett tired again to crack the Dartmouth defense. He was unsuccessful. On third down, Bassett pitched to Tom Bilodeau who tried to pass to Taylor. Dartmouth's fullback Tom Parkinson was waiting at the 37 yard line instead of Taylor, and his interception set up Dartmouth's second touchdown...
...When a merger takes place, the advantage lies normally with the male corporation, which has been acquisitive and active. Executives on the female side are more likely to be displaced and thrust aside." Ultimately Parkinson cites his Third Law: "Expansion means complexity and complexity, decay." How to tell when a corporation is decaying? Look at the newest buildings...
...tongue-in-cheek British professor named Cyril Northcote Parkinson has won himself a reputation in recent years for evolving Parkinson's Laws, which have a disturbing way of showing the absurdity beneath the reality. Law One concerns bureaucracy: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." Law Two on the same subject: "Expenditures rise to meet income." Now Parkinson, 53, currently a business consultant in Amsterdam, has unburdened himself of a Third Law, this time on corporations, in a book out this week (In-Laivs and Outlaws; Houghton Mifflin...
Executive Sweets. Before he lays down the law, Parkinson devotes 230 whimsical (sometimes overly whimsical) pages to getting ahead in big corporations. Some lessons to be learned: NONORIGINATION. "Of all the administrative techniques there is none, probably, of more importance than the art of having your views put forward by someone else...
...details, an insistence on exact procedure and an overemphasis on the appearance (as opposed to the reality) of competence. In general, the female trend is toward economy and financial caution. Faced with a recession, the female corporation hastens to curtail expenditure and reduce the dividend." Recognizing the difference, says Parkinson, can be vital to an aspiring executive...