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 “Document assembly: brilliant: saves time, reduces error, enforces standards, reduces costs.”
-Before plunging naked into the warm amber depths, it is worth being self-analytical for a moment. Consider ''what you already do''. We take it as a given that your process is lengthy, error-prone, un-standardised, and expensive.  But judge these things relative to your objective. If you are managing a one-off $10bn risk, who ''cares'' how long, bespoke and expensive your legal document is?
+Before plunging your plump pink cheeks into those warm amber depths, it is worth being self-analytical for a moment. Consider ''what you already do'', what is wrong with it, and therefore by deduction ''what you are trying to fix''. It might surprise you.
+We take it as a given that you will say your processes are lengthy, un-standardised, expensive to maintain and prone to error.  This may even be one of those rare things about which the organisation finds consensus. It may seem so self-evident that the firm’s usual period of obligatory bureaucratic introspection can be dispensed with.
+Resist this thought. For these things are relative, and you must judge them against your objective. If you are managing a one-off, $10bn risk, who ''cares'' how long, bespoke and expensive your legal document is, as long is it aids your management of that risk?<ref>It won’t, of course, but [[don’t take a piece of paper to a knife fight|that is another story]].</ref>
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