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{{a|work|}}A mass-communication of something important to your whole client base. How a firm does this is a | {{a|work| | ||
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}}A mass-communication of something important — “importance” being in the eye of the beholder — to your whole client base. How a firm does this is a measure of its commercial sophistication, first, and its technological sophistication, second. | |||
The usual means of | The usual means of client outreach is to get a dedicated client outreach team — there will be one, somewhere in the operations stack — to handle it by mass-market mailshot. If so, the die is cast: you have already taken the wrong path and it is too late to change. Take this as commiseration, consolation, and fortification to intervene earlier next time. | ||
===Client outreach is spam=== | |||
First thing to note: from a “client’s” perspective, any client outreach, ''at best'', is ''[[spam]]''. At ''best''. | |||
In most cases, you will be outreaching to advise (i) of some forthcoming regulatory change to your own operation with a peripheral impact on the client, and what you plan to do about it; or (ii) some [[snafu]] in your systems meaning you have transgressed some technical regulation; or (iii) an internal policy disclosure point which some bright spark in the risk management federation has dreamed up and decreed needs to be urgently notified to the world at large. | |||
===Is it ''really'' that important?=== | ===Is it ''really'' that important?=== | ||
The [[professional managerial class]]’s structural self-obsession is such that it sees its own role as a sacred calling of utmost importance to the future safety and good order of the political economy itself. It must do, to be able to sleep, given the absurd [[rent]] it extracts from that same political economy. | |||
Through this prism, well insulated from the realities beyond the tree’s | [[Middle manager]]s do not so much ''have trouble seeing the wood for the trees'', as ''understanding there is a wood at all''. “All there is ''this'' tree. ''My'' tree. The one with many thin branches, supporting many fat birds, like ''me''.” | ||
Through this prism, well insulated from the realities beyond the tree’s crown, that one sees only once a client communication crosses that threshold and goes out into the wide world. |