Please take note:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided
by the number of people in the group.
Parkinson's Fourth Law:
The number of people in any working group tends to increase
regardless of the amount of work to be done.
A committee is the only life form with 12 stomachs and no brain.
Mitchell's law of committees:
Any simple problem can be made insoluble if enough meetings
are held to discuss it.
What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the
unfit, to do the unnecessary.
-- Richard Harkness, The New York Times, 1960
The optimum committee has no members.
-- Norman Augustine
The optimum size of a committee is PI.
Character Density: the number of very weird people in the office.
Rule of Defactualization:
Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Law of Communications:
The inevitable result of improved and enlarged communications
between different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased
area of misunderstanding.
Parkinson's Fifth Law:
If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good
bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.