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This helps no-one, of course, although it may help quell the inner road-rage that motivates [[Negotiator|those who seek out arguments for a living]].<ref>You, my young eaglet, are just such a person, so do not scoff.</ref>  
This helps no-one, of course, although it may help quell the inner road-rage that motivates [[Negotiator|those who seek out arguments for a living]].<ref>You, my young eaglet, are just such a person, so do not scoff.</ref>  


Now for many years this was a fine state of affairs, although it does tend to make sales people —exitable at the best of times — a bit jumpy. But alas, this scandalous inefficiency finally attracted the attention of the [[middle management]] layer. Middle managers know little of any value about anything, as we know — that is why they are middle managers — but the merits of a humble confidentiality agreement are basic enough for even a simpleton to grasp, and the [[NDA]] has become something of a ''bête noire'', or a ''cause célèbre'', depending on how you look at it, for the [[chief operating office]]. In the NDA it apprehends ''something it can fix''.  
Now for many years this was a fine state of affairs, although it does tend to make sales people — excitable at the best of times — a bit jumpy. But alas, this scandalous inefficiency finally attracted the attention of the [[middle management]] layer. [[Middle manager]]s know little of any value about anything, as we know — that is why they are middle managers — but the merits of a humble confidentiality agreement are basic enough for even a simpleton to grasp, and the [[NDA]] has become something of a ''bête noire'', or a ''cause célèbre'', depending on how you look at it, for the [[chief operating office]]. In the NDA it apprehends ''something it can fix''.  


Being modern, [[Thought leader|thought-leader]] types they see a blindingly obvious way of doing this: ''[[reg tech]]''. Now you and I might think, differently: if the negotiation process was a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] already, then engaging [[machine learning]] and [[natural language processing]] to [[intermediation|intermediate]] is hardly going to help. But there we have it. No-one ''asked'' us.
Being modern, [[Thought leader|thought-leader]] types they see a blindingly obvious way of doing this: ''[[reg tech]]''. Now you and I might think, differently: if the negotiation process was a [[Rube Goldberg machine]] already, then engaging [[machine learning]] and [[natural language processing]] to [[intermediation|intermediate]] is hardly going to help. But there we have it. No-one ''asked'' us.