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*The business ''should'' make legal calls within normal operating parameters (the “[[BAU]]”), as is responsible | *The business ''should'' make legal calls within normal operating parameters (the “[[BAU]]”), as it is responsible should it get them wrong, the same way you are responsible if you accidentally shoplift, or drive on the wrong side of the road. Your [[lawyer]] doesn’t go to jail; ''you'' do. | ||
*The business ''should'' read the whole contract. Yes, ''the whole contract''. Like, ''what''? Sure. You are taking responsibility for everything in it, after all (see above). Why ''wouldn’t'' you read it? Are you just going to take it on faith from the [[legal eagle|legal eagles]]? There is room here for an extended essay on “how things have got to this pretty pass, in which a business person with a decent liberal education is yet not not reasonably ''capable'' of understanding a legal contract” — and rent-seeking legal eagles do play a role in that story, but we will save it for another day. | *The business ''should'' read the whole contract. Yes, ''the whole contract''. Like, ''what''? Sure. You are taking responsibility for everything in it, after all (see above). Why ''wouldn’t'' you read it? Are you just going to take it on faith from the [[legal eagle|legal eagles]]? There is room here for an extended essay on “how things have got to this pretty pass, in which a business person with a decent liberal education is yet not not reasonably ''capable'' of understanding a legal contract” — and rent-seeking legal eagles do play a role in that story, but we will save it for another day. | ||
*The business should therefore know not just the [[known known]]s <ref>And the [[unknown known]]s, but [[QED]] it ''does not'' know those. Such is the imperfect state of the world, my friends.</ref> but also the [[known unknowns|known ''unknowns'']] and to be aware, and responsible for, the [[Unknown unknown|''unknown'' unknown]]s. Only where you encounter a known unknown should the business get on the phone to legal, but the outcome of that advice is ''for the business to acquire another [[known known]]''. | *The business should therefore know not just the [[known known]]s <ref>And the [[unknown known]]s, but [[QED]] it ''does not'' know those. Such is the imperfect state of the world, my friends.</ref> but also the [[known unknowns|known ''unknowns'']] and to be aware, and responsible for, the [[Unknown unknown|''unknown'' unknown]]s. Only where you encounter a known unknown should the business get on the phone to legal, but the outcome of that advice is ''for the business to acquire another [[known known]]''. | ||
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