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1. '''Management''': That unexpected [[black swan|catastrophe]] that is certain to bugger up your weekend. | 1. '''Management''': That unexpected [[black swan|catastrophe]] that is certain to bugger up your weekend. | ||
It will start with clear and present danger (albeit apprehended through the | It will start with clear and present danger (albeit apprehended through the befogged 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 “'''bang'''” scenario) or | :(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) as it becomes clear that none of the patiently-negotiated legal terms has any prospect of influencing the commercial imperative (viz., to [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keep the client happy and do what it wants no matter what]]), the crisis becomes ''so'' dispersed, and its [[entropy]] ''so'' great, that it fizzles out into a kind of [[boredom heat death]] of concatenated side letters and non-binding mutual assurances of [[good faith]] (the “'''whimper'''” scenario). | :(b) as it becomes clear that none of the patiently-negotiated legal terms has any prospect of influencing the commercial imperative (viz., to [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keep the client happy and do what it wants no matter what]]), the crisis becomes ''so'' dispersed, and its [[entropy]] ''so'' great, that it fizzles out into a kind of [[boredom heat death]] of concatenated side letters and non-binding mutual assurances of [[good faith]] (the “'''whimper'''” scenario). | ||