HUMAN NATURE : SOME IRREFUTABLE TRUTHS.....( Article by Professor Hu Chi Ku Chi )

Management committees are always on a hiding to nothing. Often they fall victim to ridicule and scorn. Other times they become the subject of criticism and abuse. But committee members , just like those who voted them in , are human......and therefore it comes as no surprise to see many of the laws relating to human nature now established as irrefutable truths.
So let's take a look at some of these laws , which both dictate and describe The Human Condition, and then perhaps you will begin to see committees in a much more sympathetic light.

1. Ruckert's Law : There is nothing so small that it can't be blown out of all proportion
2. O'Brien's Law : Nothing is ever done for the right reasons
3. Wethern's Law of Suspended Judgement : Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups
4. The Snafu Equation : The bit of information most needed is least sought after
5. Seay's Law : Nothing ever comes out as planned
6. Rule of Courtroom Disputes : Truth varies
7. Law of the Lie : No matter how often the lie is shown to be false, there will remain a 
    percentage of people who believe it true
8. Borkowski's Law : You can't guard against the arbitrary
9. Levy's 9th Law :  Only God can make a random selection
10. Mckernan's Maxim : Those who are unable to learn from past mistakes are condemned 
     to repeat them
11. Kohn's Corollary to Murphy's Law : Two wrongs are only the beginning
12. Conway's Law : In any organisation there will always be one person who knows what is 
     going on : eventually this person will be fired
13. Ferguson's Precept : A crisis is when you can't say " it will all blow away "
14. Evan's and Bjorn's Law : No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who
     knew it would
15. Sod's 2nd Law : Complex problems have simple, easy to find wrong answers
16. Drazen's Law of Restitution : The time it takes to rectify a situation is inversely proportional
     to the time it takes to do the damage
17. Hane's Law : There is no limit to how bad things can get
18. Law of Probable Dispersion : Whatever hits the fan will not be evenly distributed
19. Dude's Law of Duality : Of two possible events only the undesired one will occur
20. Rudin's Law : In a crisis situation , which forces people to consider alternative courses of 
       action , most people will choose the worst possible one

So yes.....to err is human