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The documentation team just wants to know who to ask for permission to do what, when. Their line management will be focused only on turnover of their portfolio, how many days delinquent it is. This is a shame, but a consequence of our [[modernist]] obsession with lean production management. It is all very well to set up your assembly line as if it were punting out [[Toyota Corolla]]<nowiki/>s, but your suppliers need to be on message, and generally they are not: the process is captive of fantastical terms imposed by Credit as per the above, rendered in language confected by [[legal]], buffeted by the [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|incommensurable]] frame of reference adopted by their counterparty and, more usually, its legal advisors. | The documentation team just wants to know who to ask for permission to do what, when. Their line management will be focused only on turnover of their portfolio, how many days delinquent it is. This is a shame, but a consequence of our [[modernist]] obsession with lean production management. It is all very well to set up your assembly line as if it were punting out [[Toyota Corolla]]<nowiki/>s, but your suppliers need to be on message, and generally they are not: the process is captive of fantastical terms imposed by Credit as per the above, rendered in language confected by [[legal]], buffeted by the [[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions|incommensurable]] frame of reference adopted by their counterparty and, more usually, its legal advisors. | ||
''The purpose of a contract for the Docs team'': | ''The purpose of a contract for the Docs team'': A ''crust'': once uploaded into the contracts database is done, I move on, like a shark: I cannot stop moving. | ||
=== [[Buy-side legal eagle|'''External legal counsel''']] === | === [[Buy-side legal eagle|'''External legal counsel''']] === | ||
''Theirs'': The opposing side’s lawyers main goal is to show how their clients how clever and useful they are. This they do by ''hotly insisting you change minor terms in your contract''. Thus, [[Otto Büchstein|Büchstein]]’s articulation of the founding principle of commercial legal advice: [[Scribo, ergo sum|''scribo, ergo sum'']].<ref>[[I mark up, therefore I am|I mark-up, therefore I am]]</ref> Now, the more rigorously you benchmark your terms to the market, the less scope there will for show-boating [[mark-up]]: to be sure, one can never entirely rid a document of fussy clarifications and [[For the avoidance of doubt|“doubt”-avoiding]] parentheticals, but one can ''minimise'' them by careful document design. | ''Theirs'': The opposing side’s lawyers main goal is to show how their clients how clever and useful they are. This they do by ''hotly insisting you change minor terms in your contract''. Thus, [[Otto Büchstein|Büchstein]]’s articulation of the founding principle of commercial legal advice: [[Scribo, ergo sum|''scribo, ergo sum'']].<ref>[[I mark up, therefore I am|I mark-up, therefore I am]]</ref> Now, the more rigorously you benchmark your terms to the market, the less scope there will for show-boating [[mark-up]]: to be sure, one can never entirely rid a document of fussy clarifications and [[For the avoidance of doubt|“doubt”-avoiding]] parentheticals, but one can ''minimise'' them by careful document design. | ||
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Now, if the opposing camps start out five miles from each other, neither side can know when, whether or on what terms minds will meet — or if they even ''will'' meet. Experience will say there is a fair chance, but exactly ''where'' will differ every time and, by the time their consensual landing place becomes clear, it will be so rubble-strewn, shelled, pock-marked and shot up that it will more closely resemble the ruins of Dresden than an agreement between amicable merchants seeking each others’ mutual benefit. | Now, if the opposing camps start out five miles from each other, neither side can know when, whether or on what terms minds will meet — or if they even ''will'' meet. Experience will say there is a fair chance, but exactly ''where'' will differ every time and, by the time their consensual landing place becomes clear, it will be so rubble-strewn, shelled, pock-marked and shot up that it will more closely resemble the ruins of Dresden than an agreement between amicable merchants seeking each others’ mutual benefit. | ||
The purpose of a contract for the legal counsel: A ''livelihood'': a thing in and of itself. Somewhat a like a stag weekend doing paintball. | |||
=== '''[[Trading]]''' === | === '''[[Trading]]''' === | ||