In 1955, British historian Cyril Northcote Parkinson formulated the law that now bears his name: "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion". Some may see this as cynical, but the fact is that it describes a reality that is very much present in everyday working life.
Indeed, in knowledge work, where the workload is no longer measured in pieces produced but in time invested, the question is not how long it takes to complete a task, but how each person uses the time allotted to...
For many people, meetings are a plague, not because they're inherently unhelpful, but because in practice they're often an unproductive waste of time that ends up...
In a world where everything is accelerating, where the multiplication of communication channels is scattering our attention and where the complexity of organizations causes...