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{{a|tech|}}The [[JC]]’s audit paradox is the observation that, should you use workflow tools, [[reg tech]] and automation to carry out rudimentary tasks, they will by their nature force you into sub-optimal behaviour patterns. In other words a tool that is meant to ''save'' work and ''reduce'' anxiety actually creates more of it. | {{a|tech|}}The [[JC]]’s audit paradox is the observation that, should you use workflow tools, [[reg tech]] and automation to carry out rudimentary tasks, they will by their nature force you into sub-optimal behaviour patterns. In other words a tool that is meant to ''save'' work and ''reduce'' anxiety actually creates ''more'' of it. | ||
The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | The [[audit paradox]] is at the confluence of three streams of modern institutional thinking: | ||
*'''The [[buttocratic oath]]''': One’s first priority is to one’s own posterior. ''[[Primum nil errare]]'': | *'''The [[buttocratic oath]]''': One’s first priority is to one’s own posterior. ''[[Primum nil errare]]'': First, do no harm ''to your own career''. | ||
*'''[[Casanova’s advice]]''': If in doubt, stick it in: it won’t do any harm to ask for contractual protections we don’t in point of fact, really need. | |||
*'''The world consists of what can be measured''': The ultra-reductionist view that as long as you can measure something you can control it. | |||
Example: The contract review tool. | |||