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:—Jerry Maguire}} | :—Jerry Maguire}} | ||
If you want to forge a career in in professional services — if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office,with beanbags, | If you want to forge a career in in professional services — if you want handsome fortune while sitting in a comfortable office,with beanbags, free taxis home after nine and the benign protection of a regional co-chair of employees cultural network, all you need do is ''keep your eye on the ball''. | ||
The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, [[ESG]] credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go and doubtless vouchsafe lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return. | The “ball” is not the upshot of the employee survey, the mentoring program, pay parity, [[ESG]] credentials, workplace satisfaction, community teamworks — these things will come and go and doubtless vouchsafe lucky chancers a decent living — but the basic business of sensibly deploying capital in pursuit of sustainable return. | ||
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[[This time is different|This time is ''not'' different]]. | [[This time is different|This time is ''not'' different]]. | ||
Health and safety officers and | Health and safety officers and, [[ceteris paribus]], co-ordinators of the employee cultural network will, insh’Allah, have been whacked in the meantime, but if what you do (aside from all that) is to ''look after is the prudent allocation of real capital to real risk'' —and if you are ''good'' at it — then nothing the information revolution can throw at you will hurt. | ||
For the most part the [[information revolution]] is a revolution of ''delivery''. | For the most part the [[information revolution]] is a revolution of ''delivery''. | ||