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It is hard to believe that NDAs are such an immovable social feature of business. But perhaps we should look for a proxy all the same. It seems unintuitive, but perhaps the lesson is this: ''look for more productive ways of indicating commitment than a stupid NDA''. Make other, ''more meaningful'' sacrifices: ones that aren’t such a drag. | It is hard to believe that NDAs are such an immovable social feature of business. But perhaps we should look for a proxy all the same. It seems unintuitive, but perhaps the lesson is this: ''look for more productive ways of indicating commitment than a stupid NDA''. Make other, ''more meaningful'' sacrifices: ones that aren’t such a drag. | ||
Now that is is exactly what corporate entertainment is designed to do, of course — yet, but in rationalising it as a type of low-level corruption, as abstemious regulators tend to do these days (rightly!) does the [[high-modernist]], ultra-rationalist view of business as “a complicated but fundamentally logical, deterministic machine” miss a trick? | Now that is is exactly what corporate entertainment is designed to do, of course — yet, but in rationalising it as a type of low-level corruption, as abstemious regulators tend to do these days (rightly!) does the [[high-modernist]], ultra-rationalist view of business as “a complicated but fundamentally logical, deterministic machine” miss a trick? | ||
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* [[It’s not about the bike]] | * [[It’s not about the bike]] | ||
*{{br|Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion}}, Robert Cialdini’s master work on persuasion | *{{br|Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion}}, Robert Cialdini’s master work on persuasion | ||
*[[OneNDA]] | *[[OneNDA]] | ||
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