Friday, July 24, 2015

LEAGUE OF NATIONS ALL OVER AGAIN?

The League of Nations for world peace was apparently the brain child of our president Woodrow Wilson, but in the end the United States didn't sign on, essentially killing the League of Nations.  As C. Northcote Parkinson has said (paraphrased) "Buildings for the League of Nations were finished in 1938 and so was the League of Nations."  I have used this phrase before that appears in his book "Parkinson's Law."*

There are complaints that the Iranian Nuclear-Inspections Agreement don't go far enough and should cover many more items of Iran's abuse.  Indeed I have covered this approach in item 7 of my Basics Of Bureaucracy title "Keep It Simple."**  Achieving bureaucratic things goes with a power law.  It is not twice as hard to achieve two things compared to one thing in one plan, it is 2squared times as hard, or 4 times as hard.  I believe it was right to approach only one matter in the negotiations. Even that proved to be nearly impossible.

* http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/07/basics-of-bureaucracy.html
This is not however, Parkinson's Law which states that work expands to fill the time available.  This saying is a favorite of mine used many times.  I have proposed a corollary that states, "Work expands to cover all the flat spaces available."

** http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2011/07/basics-of-bureaucracy.html#uds-search-results

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