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A handsome silvered fifty five year-old midwesterner with the bearing, and legal acumen, of a 747 pilot. If you encounter him in the lift he won’t have a clue who you are, even though you have worked in his department since 1998. | A handsome silvered fifty five year-old midwesterner with the bearing, and legal acumen, of a 747 pilot. If you encounter him in the lift he won’t have a clue who you are, even though you have worked in his department since 1998. | ||
General counsel habitually float above the messy tedium of actual legal work. They owe their elevated position to a knack for side-stepping difficult decisions — something which, in a large organization during peacetime, it is easy to do, especially one with well-functioning [[escalation circle]]s. Being commander-in-chief of the armed forces is a cinch when the nation is not at war. | General counsel habitually float above the messy tedium of actual legal work. They owe their elevated position to a knack for side-stepping difficult decisions — something which, in a large organization during peacetime, it is easy to do, especially one with well-functioning [[escalation circle]]s. Being commander-in-chief of the armed forces is a cinch when the nation is not at war. Even in the torrid markets of the last decade, for the most part, the nation has not been at war. | ||
But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having happened to have been mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the rising tide came in which floats all boats. General counsel will even, occasionally but without irony, accept [[industry awards]] for their talents. Those with an ounce of self-awareness will loudly attribute the gong to the relentless hard work and unique skill mix of their team, without which none of their ''legerdemain'' would have been possible. But egotists won’t. | But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having happened to have been mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the rising tide came in which floats all boats. General counsel will even, occasionally but without irony, accept [[industry awards]] for their talents. Those with an ounce of self-awareness will loudly attribute the gong to the relentless hard work and unique skill mix of their team, without which none of their ''legerdemain'' would have been possible. But egotists won’t. | ||