Eagle squad
Education/advocacy
- Systems for good (meadows) and bad (gall)
- The role of legal
- The two modes of legal: farming and building a frontier
- Farming: Toyota production system
- Frontier: normal accidents
- The line betwixt: triage
- Philosophical battle of reductionism versus pragmatism. Plays out in the view we can manage every risk by policy.
- Commitment signalling: understanding the psychology of negotiation
- Getting *their* business onside, and reframing the debate between their business and their legal
- The power of interpersonal relationships. Go see the client. Build rapport. Call them. Then put it in writing.
- The nature of catastrophic risk is that it is not what you are looking at
- Legal documents as tools of persuasion
- Drafting hacks to make something more agreeable
The basis between risk management systems and legal docs
- The value of standardisation of operational controls
The smart contract concept and how it is a metaphor The division of labour: a process that requires manual checking is a bad process.
- Example: termsheet/contract/closing memo. If you're rekeying you're wasting effort. Structure your agreement so it is a closing memo.
- How to turn legalese into plain language