Parkinson's Law (All)

Parkinson’s Law
Whatever you don’t intentionally design, will be designed for you externally.
1. Law of Wasted Time: states that "Work expands to fill the time available for its completion."
2. Law of Money: “Money paid out rises to meet income. “
3. Law of Spatial Erosion: “Stuff expands to take up the space available for storage.”
4. Law of Communication: "The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel, and misrepresentation.”
5. Law of Shared Inefficiency: "The number of people in any working group tends to increase irrespective of the amount of work to be completed."
6. Law of Procrastination: "If there is a way to delay an important decision or action, we will find it.”
7. Law of Complacency: “Complacency expands continuously to fill the space available for it."
There are many ways you can use this principle to your advantage.
1. Continually Reduce the time allotted to your tasks. Aim to challenge yourself to grow.
• First, in your personal tasks,
• Second, in the task’s you delegate.
• Develop an internal “sense of urgency” that leads to an external “culture of urgency.”
2. Fully Commit to your desired outcome. Determine to rise to the challenge whatever it takes.
• Adrenaline kicks you into the next gear. Use it to your advantage and learn to master it internally (not just external stimuli)
• Half commitments always fall short of expectations. This is a universal law.
3. Always work goal-oriented not time oriented.
• Add value by achieving something great, don’t just put in time.
• Always assign a time for completion (Finish line, benchmarks) that ensures timeliness and efficiency.
• Finish lines and benchmarks should always be challenging but attainable.
4. Be afraid of under-communicating.
• Your job isn’t to “tell them” the expectation. It’s to gain certainty that it is fully understood. Get confirmation.
• Never assume. Previous communicated expectations fade quickly. Like a battery, it needs to be recharged daily with repetition.
5. Get it done now! “Don’t let the sun go down…”
• If it’s a top priority, schedule it, protect it, and do it!
• If it’s not, delegate it, delay it, or remove it.
• Stay ahead of your solutions, not falling behind multiplying your problems.
6. Whatever you want to have, give even more. Be your best.
• Invest in others and they will invest in you. Raise your value to others.
• Sacrifice always comes before reward. Don’t reap before you sow.
Parkinson’s Law and Big Rocks
What are Big Rocks?
• Big Rocks are NOT goals. They are actions you wish to adopt.
• Big Rocks are daily habits that combat Parkinson’s Law.
• Big Rocks should not feel natural and are uncomfortable by design.
• Big Rocks are about YOU and your inefficiencies, not your team.
• Big Rocks are constant and consistent pressure to redirect YOUR behavior.