A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.

After serving as visiting professor at Harvard University in 1958 and the University of Illinois and the University of California Berkeley in 1959–60 he resigned his post in Singapore at the University of Malaya to become an independent writer and celebrity. Parkinson's Law: and Other Studies in Domestic Science (1968)
The Law of Delay (1970)
The fur-lined mousetrap (1972)
The Defenders Script for a "Son et Lumière" in Guernsey (1975)
Gunpowder Treason and Plot (1978)
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Discusses Political Science with Julian H. In 1958 while still in Singapore Parkinson publiC. Northcote Parkinsond his most famous work Parkinson's Law a book that expanded upon a humorous article that he had first publiC. Northcote Parkinsond in the Economist magazine in November 1955 satirizing government bureaucracies.

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some sixty books the most famous of which was his bestseller Parkinson's Law which led him to be also considered as an important scholar within the field of public administration.