OLD'S AND KAHN'S LAW:
The efficiency of a committee meeting is inversely proportional to the number of participants and the time spent on deliberations.

SHANAHAN'S LAW:
The length of a meeting rises by the square of the number of people present.

LAW OF TRIVIALITY:
The time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.

FIRST LAW OF COMMITTO-DYNAMICS:
Comitas comitatum, omnia comitas.

SECOND LAW OF COMMITTO-DYNAMICS:
The less you enjoy serving on committees, the more likely you are to be pressed to do so.

HENDRICKSON'S LAW:
If a problem causes many meetings, the meetings eventually become more important than the problem.

LORD FALKLAND'S RULE:
When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary to not make a decision.

FAIRFAX'S LAW:
Any facts which, when included in an argument, give the desired results, are fair facts for the argument.

McNAUGHTON's RULE:
Any argument worth making within the bureaucracy must be capable of being expressed in a simple declarative sentence that is obviously true once stated.

TRUMAN'S LAW:
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.

FIRST LAW OF DEBATE:
Never argue with a fool- people might not know the difference.

LAWS OF PROCRASTINATION:
1. Procrastination shortens the job and places the responsibility for it's termination on someone else( the authority who imposed the deadline).
2. It reduces anxiety by reducing the expected quality of the project from the best of all possible efforts to the best that can be expected given the time limit.
3. Status is gained in the eyes of others, and in one's own eyes, because it is assumed that the importance of the work justifies the stress.
4. Avoidance of interruptions including the assignment of other duties can usually be achieved, so that the obviously stressed worker can concentrate on the single effort.
5. Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the feeling that there is nothing important to do.
6. It may eliminate the job if the need passes before the job can be done.

SWIPPLE RULE OF ORDER:
He who shouts loudest has the floor.

RAYBURN'S RULE:
If you want to get along, go along.

BOREN'S LAWS:
1. When in doubt, mumble.
2. When in trouble, delegate.
3. When in charge, ponder.

PARKER'S RULE OF PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE:
A motion to adjourn is always in order.

PATTON'S LAW:
A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.