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In a scrape — at any rate, one whose outcome depended on who had the better command of [[pedantry]] — here is a fellow you would be no

...to employees, contractors, outsourced service-providers but, as far as we know, modernist management orthodoxy has not yet updated the concept to include ...ger can really hold the business back. Alison recalls working with someone who had 13 people reporting directly to her. “She had to do 13 [[Performance

...t the door of management and not poor benighted [[subject matter expert]]s who are expected to make sense of the [[Rube Goldberg machine]] that management Those investigating accidents are motivated in ways which will favour the “[[me

...he “weeds” — is the mark of the unpromotable laggard. The [[JC]] is one of those. ...you want to progress in this firm, you must ''get out of the weeds''. You know, and ''manage''.”

Those unintended consequences included heightened paranoia amongst deal counsel w ...ce requires the person ''signing'' the contract to be removed from the one who ''negotiated'' it.

...n’s Counsel’s opinion on a complex derivatives. ''What the hell would a QC know about it?'' ''Trillions'' of dollars of derivatives are traded every year, ...n your drafting for the benefit of judges in priority to the men and women who are party to it, you are out of your mind. But for the very same reason, th

...email sent from an unmonitored account]] — they’re a cheap shot at someone who can’t hit back — and more to the point they are a failure in [[design]] Most signs — other those amounting to ''labels'' or imparting ''directions'' — don’t work very w

{{a|repack|}}Commercial [[Legal eagle|legal eagles]] know a lot about ''taking'' security and ''granting'' [[Security interest|securi ...by their clients and by their own [[senior relationship management|SRM]]s, who had been shouted at by their clients, for being transparently useless when

..., and would insist its counterparty could line up as a creditor to enforce those it did not. This rather buggers up the idea of netting positive and negativ ...or derivatives, the choice moves to the {{isdaprov|Non-Defaulting Party}}, who can choose whether to allow the debtor to keep the contract or close out.

The other one is ''freezing on stage because you don’t know what you are meant to be saying''. ...nformation|“push” communication]] — and having prepared it in ignorance of who the audience will turn out to be, you are presenting a carefully structured

...istory tells us that. But it couldn’t persuade {{author|Daniel Susskind}}, who wrote a new book with a familiar old message: [[this time is different]].<r Technology certainly threatens those who seek to [[operationalise]] labour — who look to take the easy, [[algorithm]]ic bits, that could and, really (if [[r

...odd [[Fossil record|fossils]] who still insist on using it, though most of those have long-since been taken out and shot, a process now happening to discipl

The risk retention rule requires that those who sponsor an [[asset-backed security]] to “retain an economic interest in a ...do with the definition of “[[asset-backed security]]” which must be — you know — a ''security''. A bilateral, non-negotiable loan isn’t. Now it is not

...a surprise and disappointment to many intelligent, self-respecting humans, who hitherto had rather liked to think they were in control of their own destin ...gs. In a corporation it is the other way around. The agent is the thing we know, because it’s us, and the “firm” is this ineffably weird thing we can

There’s a lady who’s sure … <br> ...ccepted to be of good social position (hereinafter, the “'''Purchaser'''”) who, having taken reasonable steps to verify the accuracy thereof, is reasonabl

...8, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th centu Jacobs’ contrarian, “bottom-up” thesis is simple: those on the ground generally best understand their own predicament, and are best

...vance, from the invention of writing to the invention of television, those who have failed to appreciate the non-zero-sum nature of technological evolutio ...to the [[data maximalist]]<nowiki/>s: those [[techbro]] [[reductionist]]s who, hopped up on Ayn Rand, [[singularity]] chat and [[Simulation hypothesis|si

...ies on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly that it is ''he'' who has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the

...icked apart. In doing so you will win no thanks from your [[salesperson]], who will volubly hate you for your trouble: yet, one of the great pleasures of ...ne or foolish as your [[client]] is asking you to be: it is always nice to know your competitors’ weaknesses. But that doesn’t mean you should follow s

Who hasn’t had a goal that has been overtaken by events? Has anyone had one t ...circumstances change, might seem less sensible later. But the one thing we know with [[certainty]] is that ''the future is not certain''. Circumstances ''d