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A person with a cautious or reflective nature. That’s who. When they come for you, ask yourself this: Why are they asking ''me'' to do this and not someone already in or with some understanding of  the documentation unit? ''These people know something you don’t. Do not fall for their lionisation of your people management skills. IT ISN'T ABOUT PEOPLE MANAGEMENT''.
A person with a cautious or reflective nature. That’s who. When they come for you, ask yourself this: Why are they asking ''me'' to do this and not someone already in or with some understanding of  the documentation unit? ''These people know something you don’t. Do not fall for their lionisation of your people management skills. IT ISN'T ABOUT PEOPLE MANAGEMENT''.


Running the [[documentation unit]] is thankless not because of the [[negotiator]]s — by and large, a perfectly pleasant, capable and long-suffering bunch, though not unknown to have cabin fever or the fractious personalities of dogs that have been kicked too often — but, because of its cost, heft, and inevitably negative impact on the franchise. The documentation unit is therefore an irresistible “cost centre” for [[change manager|change managers]], [[management consultant|management consultants]],and [[chief operating officer]]s to fiddle with. [[Offshoring]], [[outsourcing]], operations-aligning, [[Automation - Amwell|automating]] — all of kind of easily spoken ideas will flood {{sex|his}} feverish mind. It will not be his job to do these — a team of misunderstanding management consultants will do that, to the betterment of no-one but their own firm’s bottom line.
Running the [[documentation unit]] is thankless not because of the [[negotiator]]s — by and large, a perfectly pleasant, capable and long-suffering bunch, though not unknown to have cabin fever or the fractious personalities of dogs that have been kicked too often — but, because of its cost, heft, and inevitably negative impact on the franchise. It is therefore an irresistible target for the malign ministrations of the hoard of [[change manager|change managers]], [[management consultant|management consultants]] and [[chief operating officer]]s who roam unchecked in a modern investment bank. They see manifold opportunity to implement their sacred maxims: [[offshoring]], [[outsourcing]], operations-aligning, automating — all of kind of easily-spoken ideas will flood their feverish minds.  


Their ideas, cribbed from academic texts and theoretical models which have never experienced the horror of peering into the depths of an {{isdama}}, will override any more practical thoughts the poor [[head of the documentation unit]] might have had of her own to fix things. Any such ideas, however wise, will fail. but not before being systematically co-opted, amalgamated, misinterpreted, brutalized and finally forced through a sieve of business administration dogma until they are unrecognizable, unworkable, inexcusable, and yet still inextricably associated with the [[head of the documentation unit]].   
Their ideas, cribbed from academic texts and theoretical models which have never experienced the horror of peering into the depths of an {{isdama}}, will override any practical thoughts the poor [[head of the documentation unit]] might have had to fix things, but not before they have been co-opted, amalgamated, misinterpreted, brutalized and systematically forced through a sieve of business administration dogma until they are unrecognizable, unworkable, inexcusable, and profoundly the fault of the [[head of the documentation unit]].   


At that point (indeed, long before), he — or she — is generally regarded as a dead man walking.<ref>Readers who sense that the author has experienced these sensations from close range would be absolutely right.</ref>
At that point (indeed, long before), he — or she — is generally regarded as a dead man walking.<ref>Readers who sense that the author has experienced these sensations from close range would be absolutely right.</ref>