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]]