{"id":41626,"date":"2018-01-30T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=41626"},"modified":"2018-01-10T08:35:54","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:35:54","slug":"qotd-worstalls-law-of-organizations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/30\/qotd-worstalls-law-of-organizations\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Worstall&#8217;s Law of Organizations"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I would, and do, argue that this is, in fact, the inevitable fate of all and any organizations, so much so that we might call it Worstall&#8217;s Law of Organizations, perhaps a minor corollary to Parkinson&#8217;s Laws. All and any organizations will in the end be run by those who stay awake in committee. A brief survey of the world around us will show that this is a simple and obvious truth.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Worstall, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ideasinactiontv.com\/tcs_daily\/2005\/06\/any-organization-will-in-the-end-be-run-by-those-who-stay-awake-in-committee.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;&#8216;Any Organization Will, In the End, Be Run By Those Who Stay Awake in Committee'&#8221;, <em>Ideas in Action<\/em><\/a>, 2005-06-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would, and do, argue that this is, in fact, the inevitable fate of all and any organizations, so much so that we might call it Worstall&#8217;s Law of Organizations, perhaps a minor corollary to Parkinson&#8217;s Laws. All and any organizations will in the end be run by those who stay awake in committee. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,831,84,57,41],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-41626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bureaucracy","category-business","category-government","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-parkinsonslaw"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-aPo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41627,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41626\/revisions\/41627"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}