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[[File:Guilty-dogs.jpg|450px|thumb|center|It was the guy in operations, honest.]] | [[File:Guilty-dogs.jpg|450px|thumb|center|It was the guy in operations, honest.]] | ||
}}How much of a firm’s risk management capability and infrastructure is dedicated, as a first priority, to ''plausible deniability''? This might sound a fatuous, rather cynical question, but the scorecard of corporate catastrophe against individual responsibility over the last 30 years tells a different story. Whatever should go wrong, however disastrous, it never seems to be anybody’s fault. ''Anywhere''. | }}{{d|Plausible deniability|/ˈplɔːzəbl/ /dɪˈnaɪəˈbɪlɪti/|n|}} | ||
To be just the right distance from an initiative: close enough to a project to bask in its warm, glorious light should it be a success; far enough away to be beyond its blast radius when it explodes in ignominy. | |||
How much of a firm’s risk management capability and infrastructure is dedicated, as a first priority, to ''plausible deniability''? This might sound a fatuous, rather cynical question, but the scorecard of corporate catastrophe against individual responsibility over the last 30 years tells a different story. Whatever should go wrong, however disastrous, it never seems to be anybody’s fault. ''Anywhere''. | |||
Not, at least, in the [[Middle management|management]] layer. | Not, at least, in the [[Middle management|management]] layer. | ||