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Show me the money.  
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If you want to forge a career in in professional services, if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office with the protection the diversity and inclusion officer, keep your eye on the main chance.
If you want to forge a career in in professional services if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office,with beanbags, ferret taxis home after nine and  the benign protection of a regional co-chair of [[diversity and inclusion]], ''keep your eye on the ball''.


New diversity and inclusion officer will inshallah be whacked in the meantime but if what you look after is the allocation of real money, real talent, real property, and if you are good at it and dash with you our expert and dash if you are the best in your field, then nothing in the technological revolution can hurt you.  
The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, [[ESG]] credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go and doubtless vouchsafe lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return.


For the most part the information Revolution is a revolution of delivery mechanisms. Amazon can deliver products to you more effectively and efficiently than a high street retailer. eBay deliver to you goods being offered by the general public in a way that classified advertisements and auction houses could not.
Mark it: this has not changed since the industrial Revolution full stop this hasn't changed since the agricultural Revolution. This hasn't changed since the invention of the ''wheel''.


Digital businesses may be different, but only by degree. In some sense traditional media may be threatened by network economies surfacing content that can be produced cheaply, but at some point some quality control and and authentication of real experts with real experience makes a difference. Quality of content must ultimately prevail.
[[This time is different|This time is ''not'' different]].


Capital must be allocated. The business of allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in the hopeful expectation of profit is not fundamentally altered by the information revolution. The allocation of land to resources, the manufacturing of physical goods, the manufacture, purchase, sale and conveyance of commodities is barely changed by the metaverse. People must eat. People need shelter. The resources of the planet are scarce and growing scarcer. These are fundamental truths which millenarian thinking cannot falsify.
Health and safety officers and co-co-ordinators of the employee cultural network will, insh’Allah, be whacked in the meantime but if what you do is  look after is the prudent allocation of real money, real talent, real property, to real risk situations —and if you are ''good'' at it — then nothing the technological revolution can throw at you will hurt.  


The things that can change are delivery, administration, law,regulation, audit, monitoring and control. These are vulnerable. These are transient. These are Vegas path times for bureaucratic passengers. If you devote your life to Jesus from your shelf life full stop find activities which involve genuine risk of physical or monetary loss, and specialise in them. Become expert.
For the most part the [[information revolution]] is a revolution of ''delivery''.  


Will the world end if you don't comply with regulation by
Amazon can deliver products to you more effectively and efficiently than a high street retailer. eBay puts you in touch with public sellers of goods in a way that classified advertisements and auction houses could never do.
 
Digital businesses may be different, but only by degree. In some sense, traditional media may be threatened by network economies: gathering and allocating content more efficiently and could a traditional media organisation, but at some point quality control and authentication by real experts with real experience of real data does make a difference.
 
''Quality ultimately prevails.''
 
Capital must be allocated. The business of allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in the hopeful expectation of profit is not fundamentally altered by the [[information revolutio]. The allocation of land to resources, the manufacturing of physical goods, the manufacture, purchase, sale and conveyance of commodities is barely changed by the [[metaverse]]. People must eat. People need shelter. The resources of the planet are scarce and growing scarcer. These are fundamental truths which millenarian thinking cannot falsify.
 
The things that can change are delivery, administration, law, regulation, audit, monitoring and control. Regulatory change. Netting compliance. These are ''transient''. They are [[second-order derivative|second-order properties]]. Adeptness at them is a ''vulnerability''.
 
These are ''pastimes for bureaucratic passengers''. If you devote your life to Jesus from your shelf life full stop find activities which involve genuine risk of physical or monetary loss, and specialise in them. Become expert.
 
Will the world end if you don't comply with regulation? No.

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Show me the money.

—Jerry Maguire

If you want to forge a career in in professional services — if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office,with beanbags, ferret taxis home after nine and the benign protection of a regional co-chair of diversity and inclusion, keep your eye on the ball.

The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, ESG credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go and doubtless vouchsafe lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return.

Mark it: this has not changed since the industrial Revolution full stop this hasn't changed since the agricultural Revolution. This hasn't changed since the invention of the wheel.

This time is not different.

Health and safety officers and co-co-ordinators of the employee cultural network will, insh’Allah, be whacked in the meantime but if what you do is look after is the prudent allocation of real money, real talent, real property, to real risk situations —and if you are good at it — then nothing the technological revolution can throw at you will hurt.

For the most part the information revolution is a revolution of delivery.

Amazon can deliver products to you more effectively and efficiently than a high street retailer. eBay puts you in touch with public sellers of goods in a way that classified advertisements and auction houses could never do.

Digital businesses may be different, but only by degree. In some sense, traditional media may be threatened by network economies: gathering and allocating content more efficiently and could a traditional media organisation, but at some point quality control and authentication by real experts with real experience of real data does make a difference.

Quality ultimately prevails.

Capital must be allocated. The business of allocating hundreds of millions of dollars in the hopeful expectation of profit is not fundamentally altered by the [[information revolutio]. The allocation of land to resources, the manufacturing of physical goods, the manufacture, purchase, sale and conveyance of commodities is barely changed by the metaverse. People must eat. People need shelter. The resources of the planet are scarce and growing scarcer. These are fundamental truths which millenarian thinking cannot falsify.

The things that can change are delivery, administration, law, regulation, audit, monitoring and control. Regulatory change. Netting compliance. These are transient. They are second-order properties. Adeptness at them is a vulnerability.

These are pastimes for bureaucratic passengers. If you devote your life to Jesus from your shelf life full stop find activities which involve genuine risk of physical or monetary loss, and specialise in them. Become expert.

Will the world end if you don't comply with regulation? No.