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One of those people with an [[MBA]] who is profoundly deaf to protest “that is easier said than done”, largely

...utions like school, university, work, the internet and, well, people on it who witter on about “lived experiences” all the time. Yes: like the JC. ...ial in nature to anyone minded to listen. The converse is just as true for those [[Inclined to|inclined]] to [[Humblebraggadocio|humblebrag]] about [[indust

...seek the, well [[metis]], of one who holds themselves out as an expert and who is, for a fee, prepared to say. A lawyer. Having a kind solicitor sort all The client may not be realistic in that aspiration. An in-house lawyer may know perfectly well it is a fruitless exercise but will do it to get her salespe

...allen from grace. John Milton Friedman has been cast from paradise<ref>I ''know'' he wasn’t called John. </ref>. The narrative has changed. In a time whi ...ything the corporation does, putting the [[professional-managerial class]] who run the company beyond the reproach of the one stakeholder group with the n

...uits of the contract|fruits]], is one that appears not to have occurred to those under the age of thirty. ...ilosophy, [[post modernism]] and the [[Critical theory|critical theories]] who would now write this stale colonial tradition from history. Look, knock you

...to the [[JC]] so I thought you lovely hardy band of readers might like to know what’s about to happen and why. ...ki/>s: specialist contract negotiators, students, market practitioners and those needing knowhow management in their actual line of work — will require lo

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