Before an apocalypse becomes an apocalypse, it doesn’t look like an apocalypse: Difference between revisions

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Furthermore, it is one thing to have a legal right to pull your trigger, it is quite another to resolve to use it. ''Especially'' if you don’t know how this all will play out. ''After'' the event there was only ever one option. ''Before'' it, there were twenty million dollars of annual revenues at stake. The decision to blow up a key client is not one many individuals will be prepared to make on their own. Institutional [[Escalation circle|escalations]] are time consuming, fraught, intimidating things. To recommend affronting a platinum client is to invite a shellacking from someone along way further up the tree than you are. If these are your options, is it any wonder a risk manager will dodge the hard questions?
Furthermore, it is one thing to have a legal right to pull your trigger, it is quite another to resolve to use it. ''Especially'' if you don’t know how this all will play out. ''After'' the event there was only ever one option. ''Before'' it, there were twenty million dollars of annual revenues at stake. The decision to blow up a key client is not one many individuals will be prepared to make on their own. Institutional [[Escalation circle|escalations]] are time consuming, fraught, intimidating things. To recommend affronting a platinum client is to invite a shellacking from someone along way further up the tree than you are. If these are your options, is it any wonder a risk manager will dodge the hard questions?
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