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{{a|work|[[File:2319.jpg|450px|center|frameless|]]{{subtable|The fire-drill, known to parents of toddlers around the turn of the millennium, such as the [[JC]], as a “[[2319]]”.}}}}{{d|Fire drill|/ˈfʌɪə drɪl/|n|}} | {{a|work|[[File:2319.jpg|450px|center|frameless|]]{{subtable|The fire-drill, known to parents of toddlers around the turn of the millennium, such as the [[JC]], as a “[[2319]]”.}}}}{{d|Fire drill|/ˈfʌɪə drɪl/|n|}} | ||
1. '''Management''': That unexpected [[black swan]] | 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 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 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 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 neither the legal terms so patiently negotiated, the firmwide policies so compendiously documented or the common-sense so parsimoniously rationed, has any real prospect of overriding the dictates of [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keeping the client happy]] (the “'''''whimper''''' scenario”). | :(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 neither the legal terms so patiently negotiated, the firmwide policies so compendiously documented or the common-sense so parsimoniously rationed, has any real prospect of overriding the dictates of [[Percy, who’s Queen?|keeping the client happy]] (the “'''''whimper''''' scenario”). | ||