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But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having happened to have been mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the rising tide came in which floats all boats. General counsel will even, occasionally but without irony, accept [[industry awards]] for their talents. Those with an ounce of self-awareness will loudly attribute the gong to the relentless hard work and unique skill mix of their team, without which none of their ''legerdemain'' would have been possible. But egotists won’t. | But no-one likes to admit they simply tinned it. Thus, most [[general counsel]] are [[inclined to]] attribute their success to their own extraordinary judgment, commercial nous and deep client relationships rather than having happened to have been mucking about in a dinghy on the tidal flats when the rising tide came in which floats all boats. General counsel will even, occasionally but without irony, accept [[industry awards]] for their talents. Those with an ounce of self-awareness will loudly attribute the gong to the relentless hard work and unique skill mix of their team, without which none of their ''legerdemain'' would have been possible. But egotists won’t. | ||
The main challenge for a modern-day [[general counsel]] is justifying {{sex|his}} position at all. He likes to be seen as a visionary, an agent for change, a revolutioniser — | The main challenge for a modern-day [[general counsel]] is justifying {{sex|his}} position at all. He likes to be seen as a visionary, an agent for change, a revolutioniser — whilst of course being nothing of the sort: one does not rise to the top of a profession designed to systematically beat creative thought out out of its practitioners ([[doctrine of precedent]], any one?) by being a left-field kind of guy. A GC will therefore speak frequently of his grand strategic vision. When not consenting to video-interviews for the intranet, a good GC will be advocating resource fluidity or commission a detailed, multi-dimensional [[risk taxonomy]]. management of this task will be in the hands of his [[COO]], and the hard-yards saddled on jobbing lawyers whom, you’d think, would be better spending their time actually managing risk, rather than inspecting ones navel looking for it. | ||
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