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{{a|risk|}} | {{a|risk|{{image|Shit fan|jpg|A [[risk controller]] asleep at the switch yesterday}}}}One of those fabulous men and women whose job is to make sure the institution they represent doesn’t unwittingly poke itself in the eye. | ||
People in these departments: | |||
*[[Credit]] | |||
*[[Legal]] | |||
*[[Compliance]] | |||
These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got credit for approving a deal that was colossally profitable, but plenty were eviscerated and left to dangle outside the city walls for neglecting to stop one that wasn’t<ref>This is, of course, outrageous hyperbole. No risk officer was so much as gruffly reprimanded for not anticipating the forthcoming [[global financial crisis]]: the [[circle of escalation]] saw to that.</ref> so you shouldn’t begrudge them the outlandishly risk-averse behavior in which they will inevitably indulge. | |||
After all, we spend large parts of our daily life catering for contingencies that will never happen. Look upon a [[control function]] as a sort of [[insurance]] against {{risk|risk}}. You pay a cost/premium upfront (in time and organisational resources) to have someone manage the {{risk|risk}}. But are these meaningful contingencies or just comfort blankets – paper tigers and imaginary monsters that, as {{risk|individual}}s we are professionally incentivised to treat as real? | |||
The [[collective noun]] for a group of [[risk controller]]s is a [[palaver]]. | |||
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*{{wasteprov|Over-processing}} - how risk controllers are incentivised to create [[waste]] in the negotiation process. | |||
*[[Chicken licken]] | |||
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