Parkinson's Heuristic: The Only Time To Do Anything
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Parkinson's Law states that work expands to fit the space allotted. The idea being, if you give someone a month to write a report, they'll take a month, but if you give them a week, they'll take a week, and then they'll have three weeks to do three other reports! The one-week and four-week reports won't be identical; but in my experience it is surprisingly often nearly as useful as the four-week version, and you get strictly more work out of people.(I, myself, am a special case of "people".)This
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