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The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | ||
*'''The [[ | *'''The [[buttocractic oath]]''': One’s first priority is to one’s own posterior. ''[[Primum nil errare]]'': First, do no harm ''to your own career''. | ||
*'''[[Casanova’s advice]]''': [[If in doubt, stick it in]]: it won’t do any harm to ''ask'' for contractual protections we don’t in point of fact, really need. | *'''[[Casanova’s advice]]''': [[If in doubt, stick it in]]: it won’t do any harm to ''ask'' for contractual protections we don’t in point of fact, really need. | ||
*'''The world consists of what can be measured''': The ultra-[[reductionist]] view that as long as you can measure something you can control it. | *'''The world consists of what can be measured''': The ultra-[[reductionist]] view that as long as you can measure something you can control it. | ||
{{c|Paradox}} | {{c|Paradox}} |