One of the classic organisational book in the United Kingdom
is ‘Parkinson’s Law. It was first published in 1955 and in matters of detail is
somewhat dated. Its key precepts rain valid and I would certainly commend the
book as an entertaining and educative read. On law states that organisations
reach the peak of their physical state at the point when terminal decline has
already set in.
This weekend there has been quite a bit of publicity in the
United Kingdom about the future (or lack of) for public telephone call boxes. BT have argued that athird of their call boxes generate less than £1 in revenue each month
How does Parkinson’s Law apply to this? In 1998 around 25%
of the UK’s population had a mobile phone. By February 2002, this had risen to
75%. Mobile phones, of course, make call boxes effectively redundant except in
areas where there is no mobile phone reception. What else happened in 2002? You’ve
guessed it. The number of call boxes reached its highest ever level.
Parkinson strikes again!
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