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{{g}}The Jolly Contrarian’s [[fifth law of worker entropy]] states that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, ''t'', a worker spends on a task and its overall importance, ''i'', to the organisation.  
{{g}}The Jolly Contrarian’s [[fifth law of worker entropy]] states that there is an inverse relationship between the amount of time, ''t'', a worker spends on a task and its overall importance, ''i'', to the organisation.  
===Examples===
===Examples===
'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend no energy promoting actual risk managemenbt or risk reduction.
*'''[[Human resources]]''': The organisation will wrack itself for four months of the year crashing mainframe computer systems trying to get a performance appraisal system to work; enforcing its [[clear desk policy]], formulating and updating its [[risk taxonomy]] and promoting an internal [[career fair]], but expend no energy promoting actual risk managemenbt or risk reduction.
'''[[Negotiation]]''': A [[negotiator]] will spend literally days battling away on the precise waterfall of dispute fallbacks for a NAV trigger, but will secure [[failure to pay]] event of default without her counterparty so much as pausing to take a breath before moving onto the next item.
*'''[[Negotiation]]''': A [[negotiator]] will spend literally days battling away on the precise waterfall of dispute fallbacks for a NAV trigger, but will secure [[failure to pay]] event of default without her counterparty so much as pausing to take a breath before moving onto the next item.


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