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Now you might wonder whether you are alone in sensing a smudge of [[cognitive dissonance]] about this. You are not. | Now you might wonder whether you are alone in sensing a smudge of [[cognitive dissonance]] about this. You are not. | ||
However imaginative they feel themselves to be, people who work in large organisations — and the [[JC]] speaks here from thirty odd years’ coalface experience, by the way — not only take ''no'' personal risk<ref>Well; one, as {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} has observed: an [[employee]] has one enormous [[tail risk]], which those who have found themselves clutching [[iron mountain]] boxes outside the premises of [[Enron]] and [[Lehman]] can tell you. But even that is the sudden discontinuation of your [[coupon]], rather rather than forteiture of your capital. </ref>but construct their entire professional trajectories around the singular objective of ''avoiding'' anything — ''anything'', however innocuous at first sight it may seem — which could, in any conceivable light, even ''resemble'' risk. To be sure, the organisation itself will take risks — it has to: there is no [[return]] without risks — but these will be gormlessly, unwittingly underwritten others in the firm: the laggards, the [[Boxer the Horse]] types, who loyally plough their furrows through land infested with mines, snakes, vermin and illness, inadvertently clearing a safe path through the valley of the shadow of death at their own cost, but to the exclusive benefit, should they be completed without ambush, immolation or catastrophe, of their [[intrepreneur]]ial colleages. | However imaginative they feel themselves to be, people who work in large organisations — and the [[JC]] speaks here from thirty odd years’ coalface experience, by the way — not only take ''no'' personal risk<ref>Well; one, as {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} has observed: an [[employee]] has one enormous [[tail risk]], which those who have found themselves clutching [[iron mountain]] boxes outside the premises of [[Enron]] and [[Lehman]] can tell you. But even that is the sudden discontinuation of your [[coupon]], rather rather than forteiture of your capital. </ref> but construct their entire professional trajectories around the singular objective of ''avoiding'' anything — ''anything'', however innocuous at first sight it may seem — which could, in any conceivable light, even ''resemble'' risk. | ||
To be sure, the organisation itself will take risks — it has to: there is no [[return]] without risks — but these will be gormlessly, unwittingly underwritten others in the firm: the laggards, the [[Boxer the Horse]] types, who loyally plough their furrows through land infested with mines, snakes, vermin and illness, inadvertently clearing a safe path through the valley of the shadow of death at their own cost, but to the exclusive benefit, should they be completed without ambush, immolation or catastrophe, of their [[intrepreneur]]ial colleages. | |||
[[Intrapreneur]]s are the organisation’s [[apex creditor]]s: they feed first, drink longest at the well, and manage their own private [[conflicts of interest]] — namely, to spend as little time at the well as possible, while drafting as much as is humanly possible from it — while the stockholders and actual workers stand by. | [[Intrapreneur]]s are the organisation’s [[apex creditor]]s: they feed first, drink longest at the well, and manage their own private [[conflicts of interest]] — namely, to spend as little time at the well as possible, while drafting as much as is humanly possible from it — while the stockholders and actual workers stand by. | ||