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==== Grandstanders ==== | ==== Grandstanders ==== | ||
There is sure to be a solid heft of perfidious manoeuvring among the softer, less effable back-office functions like [[marketing]], [[legal]] and [[financial reporting]] — functions you can’t really not have, in this day and age, but whose positive impact on the organisation is hard to gauge or even detect directly. They are not part of front-line generation, or retention, of revenue. (Sorry, [[legal eagle]]s, but it is true.) | There is sure to be a solid heft of perfidious manoeuvring among the softer, less effable back-office functions like [[marketing]], [[legal]] and [[financial reporting]] — functions you can’t really not have, in this day and age, but whose positive impact on the organisation is hard to gauge or even detect directly. They are not part of front-line generation, or retention, of revenue. (Sorry, [[legal eagle]]s, but it is true: the [[roll of honour]] refers.) | ||
Here, earnest [[subject matter expert]]s will inevitably suffer at the hands of those with a taste for the game. The “lions led by donkeys” effect is somewhere between prevalent and inevitable. | Here, earnest [[subject matter expert]]s will inevitably suffer at the hands of those with a taste for the game. The “lions led by donkeys” effect is somewhere between prevalent and inevitable. | ||
The skillsets required between the two modes are quite different for the most part contradictory. If you want a job as a transaction lawyer, supporting a desk, punching through [[equity derivative]] confirms, expect to have to prove you have at least 5 years action with a crack Freshfields special ops unit behind enemy lines. But if you want to be [[GC]], | The skillsets required between the two modes are quite different for the most part contradictory. If you want a job as a transaction lawyer, supporting a desk, punching through [[equity derivative]] confirms, expect to have to prove you have at least 5 years action with a crack [[Freshfields]] special ops unit embedded behind enemy lines. But if you want to be [[GC]], to get that seven million buck sign-on bonus just make sure your [[Diversity and inclusion|D&I]] fit is immaculate; financial services experience of any kind is preferred but not essential. | ||
==== HR ==== | ==== [[HR]] ==== | ||
Last of all — still ''on'' the [[Machiavellian continuum]], but so far along it as to be all but out of sight from any other vantage point — is [[human resources]]. HR will be a vipers’ nest of nettlesome fear and loathing, because HR’s main reason for existing is to persuade other parts of the bank it is needed | Last of all — still ''on'' the [[Machiavellian continuum]], but so far along it as to be all but out of sight from any other vantage point — is [[human resources]]. HR will be a vipers’ nest of nettlesome, and ''supremely'' [[passive-aggressive]]g, fear and loathing, because HR’s main reason for existing is to persuade other parts of the bank it is needed. It can only do this by a campaign of terror, espionage and misinformation. HR rules are accordingly more formalistic and less flexible than any other policies in the organisation, and the consequences for transgression all the more gruesome. | ||
Now these divisions are not necessarily absolute — and you can therefore rank which is the more important between department and roles by the relative degree of office politics in evidence. | Now these divisions are not necessarily absolute — and you can therefore rank which is the more important between department and roles by the relative degree of office politics in evidence. | ||