Not to be confused with [[Parkinson's Law]] by the same author. >[!abstract] >The law of triviality is C. Northcote Parkinson's 1957 argument that people within an organization commonly give disproportionate weight to trivial issues. Parkinson provides the example of a fictional committee whose job was to approve the plans for a nuclear power plant spending the majority of its time on discussions about relatively minor but easy-to-grasp issues, such as what materials to use for the staff bicycle shed, while neglecting the proposed design of the plant itself, which is far more important and a far more difficult and complex task (Wikipedia, 2025). >[!related] >- **North** (upstream): [[Organizational behavior]] >- **West** (similar): — >- **East** (different): [[Focus on materiality]] >- **South** (downstream): [[Inefficient decision-making]]