Head of the documentation unit: Difference between revisions

See also the [[Northern Ireland portfolio|Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] in the nineteen seventies.

One of the accursed people in an [[investment bank]], the poor sod who is responsible for the performance of the documentation unit — those sainted men and women who make contractual flesh the aspirations of the [[credit]] department — is only in the role to atone for a sin (possibly committed in a former life), or as act of spite, vengeance or perverse cruelty from someone else further up the organisation.

Running the negotiators is utterly thankless, not because of the negotiators — by and large perfectly pleasant, capable and long-suffering bunch — but, because of its cost, heft, and inevitably negative impact on the franchise, the docs team is an irresistible “cost centre” for [[change manager|change managers]], [[management consultant|management consultants]],and [[chief operating officer]]s to fiddle with.  

Therefore any efforts to fix things the person notionally in charge should make, however wise, are bound to fail. They will be co-opted, misinterpreted, forced into a business administration dogma and in a way that will be inextricably tied to the [[head of the documentation unit]]. He — or she — is generally regarded as a dead man walking.