• This refers to the observation that people in organisations pay more attention to unimportant issues than towards issues that really matter.
• This happens because people generally know a lot about simple things and very little about complex matters.
• The law of triviality is attributed to British naval historian and management scholar Cyril Northcote Parkinson.
• As an example, Parkinson pointed to the disproportionate amount of time that a committee spent on the question of the colour in which to paint the bike-shed as compared to the little time it spent deciding on the matter of setting up an atomic power plant.

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