Murphys Laws: Weinberg's Law Corollary to White's Observations of Committee Operation
(Murphy's Laws collected: 1583)
Weinberg's Law Corollary : An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Weisman's Law of Examinations : If you're confident after you've just finished an exam, it's because you don't know enough to know better.
Wells's Law : A parade should have bands OR horses, not both.
Westheimer's Rule : To estimate the time it takes to do a task: estimate the time you think it should take, multiply by 2, and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus we allocate 2 days for a one hour task.
Whispered Rule : People will believe anything if you whisper it.
White Flag Principle : A military disaster may produce a better postwar situation than victory.
White's Chappaquiddick Theorem : The sooner and in more detail you announce bad news, the better.
White's Observations of Committee Operation : People very rarely think in groups; they talk together, they exchange information, they adjudicate, they make compromises. But they do not think; they do not create.
White's Observations of Committee Operation : A really new idea affronts current agreement.
White's Observations of Committee Operation : A meeting cannot be productive unless certain premises are so shared that they do not need to be discussed, and the argument can be confined to areas of disagreement. But while this kind of consensus makes a group more effective in its legitimate functions, it does not make the group a creative vehicle -- it would not be a new idea if it didn't -- and the group, impelled as it is to agree, is instinctively hostile to that which is divisive.
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