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It will start with clear and present danger (albeit apprehended through the foggy beer goggles of war, confusion and miscommunication from panicked people in [[operations|ops]]); it will gradually suck in more and more people across the organisation ([[legal]], [[litigation]], [[compliance]], [[senior relationship management]]) to a point where: | It will start with clear and present danger (albeit apprehended through the foggy beer goggles of war, confusion and miscommunication from panicked people in [[operations|ops]]); it will gradually suck in more and more people across the organisation ([[legal]], [[litigation]], [[compliance]], [[senior relationship management]]) to a point where: | ||
:(a) it becomes ''so'' large that the combined mass of important people involved creates a [[Schwarzschild radius]] and it collapses in on itself (the “''''' | :(a) it becomes ''so'' large that the combined mass of important people involved creates a [[Schwarzschild radius]] and it collapses in on itself (the “'''bang'''” scenario) or | ||
:(b) it becomes ''so'' dispersed, and its [[entropy]] ''so'' great, that it fizzles out towards some kind of [[boredom heat death]] as it becomes clear that none of the legal terms so patiently negotiated, the firmwide policies so compendiously documented nor basic common-sense so parsimoniously rationed, has any prospect of overriding the dictates of [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keeping the client happy]] (the “ | :(b) it becomes ''so'' dispersed, and its [[entropy]] ''so'' great, that it fizzles out towards some kind of [[boredom heat death]] as it becomes clear that none of the legal terms so patiently negotiated, the firmwide policies so compendiously documented nor basic common-sense so parsimoniously rationed, has any prospect of overriding the dictates of [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keeping the client happy]] (the “'''whimper'''” scenario). | ||
As in so many avenues of modern life — well, mine, anyway — whimpers outnumber bangs by a proportion large enough to make a “whimper” all but certain, but yet not ''quite'' certain enough that the risk of a “bang” can safely be ignored from the get-go. | As in so many avenues of modern life — well, mine, anyway — whimpers outnumber bangs by a proportion large enough to make a “whimper” all but certain, but yet not ''quite'' certain enough that the risk of a “bang” can safely be ignored from the get-go. | ||