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A suitably [[protestant]] organisation will erect any number of [[formal]] barriers to doing simple things, particularly where they entail a large amount of ''nominal'' risk.<ref> ''Nominal'' risks are risk which ''look'' big to those people — [[administrator]]s — who while having executive ''responsibility'' for them, don’t really ''understand'' them. Compare with ''critical'' risks, which are things that ''don’t'' look big to people who ''do'' understand them, but ''are'' big. They don’t recognise them because they’ve never seen then before.</ref>  These barriers will aggravate [[subject matter experts]], who will understand them to be meaningless, but not [[administrator]]s, and the impasse can only be passed by reference to an independent arbitrator of some kind — usually an [[outside counsel|external law firm]], but sometimes an accounting megalith — who can write the cheque the [[administrator]]’s butt won’t cash, for payment of a suitable fee. (The great irony is that were it ever presented, that cheque — in the form of a legal opinion — would most likely bounce, but that is another story.) In any case no risk is taken a handsome fee is paid, all material backsides are covered, and the world moves [[protestant|Calvinistically]] along.<Ref>We have an essay about this [[protestant and catholic|Protestant and Catholic division]], if you are interested.</ref>