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It is only a truism that {{shitmaxim|nothing is more immutable than policy}} if — ''because'' — ''no-one ever challenges it''. But who should bell the cat? Who better than she who must suffer under its yoke? | It is only a truism that {{shitmaxim|nothing is more immutable than policy}} if — ''because'' — ''no-one ever challenges it''. But who should bell the cat? Who better than she who must suffer under its yoke? | ||
Pray, forgive JCs’ mixed-metaphor rabble-rousing but is not that | Pray, forgive JCs’ mixed-metaphor rabble-rousing — but is not that challenge the very thing your experience offers? Is it not your calling? Your destiny? Your ''superpower''? | ||
Within your gift, if only you would give it, lies the fresh air to heal the wounds and scars of historical misadventure to which those templates bear witness. And you won’t, why not? What does that then say about your life’s work? That you are but a painted ship upon a painted ocean? | |||
Of course | We hope this is mere rhetorical conjecture. Try it! Go on! Offer to fix your doughty verbiage! What have you got to lose? | ||
Did anyone get fired for asking good questions? (If they did — what are you doing working at such an organisation?) | |||
Of course your counterparty’s negotiators will be no less institutionalised. They too will have expectations of a certain form. They will fear, just as you do, stepping away from What Is Written; for departure from that which can be done without [[fear]] of blame. | |||
Arise, [[subject matter expert]]s! Slip your surly bonds! A word from Mr [[Nietzsche]]: | Arise, [[subject matter expert]]s! Slip your surly bonds! A word from Mr [[Nietzsche]]: | ||
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“For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to ''live dangerously''! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!”}} | “For believe me! — the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment is: to ''live dangerously''! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships into uncharted seas! Live at war with your peers and yourselves! Be robbers and conquerors as long as you cannot be rulers and possessors, you seekers of knowledge! Soon the age will be past when you could be content to live hidden in forests like shy deer!”}} | ||
JC’s anecdotal evidence is that suspicion quickly gives way to ''relief''. If you get your design right your | JC’s anecdotal evidence is that suspicion of simpler forms quickly gives way to ''relief''. If you get your design right, your customers will quickly see the advantage. Negotiators have enough of a job thrashing through everyone else’s ghastly forms: they will be glad of the relief you offer with an easy one. | ||
''If you don’t ask, you won’t get.'' | ''If you don’t ask, you won’t get.'' |