Lynn noted that JFCOM had 2,100 people and a $300 million budget in 2000, its first year of operation. By 2010, he said, it had about 6,000 employees and a $1 billion budget – “without any significant expansion of mission or responsibility.”
From Parkinson’s classic essay:
The fact is that the number of the officials and the quantity of the work are not related to each other at all. The rise in the total of those employed is governed by Parkinson’s Law and would be much the same whether the volume of the work were to increase, diminish, or even disappear.
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