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-''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations, the [[chief executive officer]]<ref>and his henchmen. Goldman had Hank, John and John, Barclays Bob, Jerry and Richie, and so on. Grim.</ref> gets referred to at all times by only his Christian name — so  “Lloyd”, “Bob”, “[[Chuck]]”, or “Jamie” — and is immune from the cynicism (which, in any other dimension, [[would be]] total) on the part of those — that is everyone, however much any of them might deny it — who hanker after advancement in the firm.
+{{a|people|}}''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations, the [[chief executive officer]]<ref>And his henchmen. Goldman had “Hank, John and John”, Barclays “Bob, Jerry and Richie”, and so on. Grim.</ref> gets referred to at all times by only his Christian name — so  “[[Lloyd]]”, “Bob”, “[[Chuck]]”, or “Jamie” — and is immune from the cynicism (which, in any other dimension, [[would be]] total) on the part of those — that is everyone, however much any of them might deny it — who hanker after advancement in the firm.
 The [[CEO]] is thus afforded ''Hero of the Soviet Union, First Class'' status — often he will be awarded it by himself — and his pronouncements, however banal, hackneyed or foolish, will be quietly celebrated across the breadth of the organisation as “[[best in class]]”. Until his ouster, whereupon he will acquire the status of [[Trotsky]], [[Snowball]], [[Emmanuel Goldstein]] and so on.
-====Apocryphal story====
+Until then, whatever the [[CEO]] wants, he gets, however flagrantly it tramples on practical traditions, carefully-wrought operating models, or simple precepts of common sense. The conflicted look on the physog of the head of compliance as she rumbustiously waves a column of tanks over a thoughtful policy framework she herself spent years designing, because of an offhand remark at the end of a Management Committee meeting, is a sight to savour.
-There is a story that a man known to all by only his [[Christian name]] at [[Goldman]] once had occasion to call the trading desk, at the time connected via a multi-line [[dealer board]]. Lord I wish it were true, but I doubt it. Let us call him [[Bob]] (not his real name, because this didn't happen, remember?).
-A voice — youthful, without the tell-tale timbre of age and experience — picked up and, as on a trading desk one does, said:
+It is important to separate the wheat of definitively dumb initiatives actually originating with the [[CEO]], to whose beat all must immediately march, from the chaff of crappy deals a [[salesperson]] has tried to ram through by [[The CEO wants this to happen|taking his boss’s name in vain]], of course.
-:“Goldman.” ''(This is a statement. there is no inquiry, no rising inflection of curiousness. It's a statement.)''
-:“Yeah, can I get [[Jerry]]?” ''(Now, when you are known to all by your [[Christian name]] you don't bother with formalities like politeness. Nor, for that matter to traders.
-:He's off the desk.
-~click~
+{{sa}}
-bob might not bother with politeness, but he rather thinks he's entitled to it. No message, even? Perhaps this young man didn't realize to whom he was speaking. [[Bob]] calls back.
-:“Goldman.”
-:“Look, it's ''[[Bob]]'' here. Can I get [[Jerry]]?”
-:I just told you he’s off the desk.
-~click~
-{{seealso}}
 *[[The CEO wants this to happen]]
+*[[Make America Great Again]]
 *[[Unjustified enrichment]]
-{{dramatis personae}}
 {{ref}}