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 As Slovenian philosopher [[Slavoj Žižek]] eloquently puts it: “the disavowed beliefs, suppositions and obscene practices we ''pretend'' not to know about, even though they form the background of our public values”.
-[[Unknown known]]s are a source of catastrophic {{risk|risk}}, as the repeal of the [[Glass-Steagall Act]] in 1999 by the [[Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999]] — hello, [[global financial crisis]]<ref>Yes, yes — I know it wasn’t ''just'' the repeal of [[Glass-Steagall Act|Glass-Steagall]] — [[David Bowie]] was also partly responsible — but it didn’t help, did it?</ref> — and the continued use, even now, of the [[Black-Scholes]] option pricing methodology — goodbye, [[LTCM]] — which worked serviceably well to model the price of options ''except in times of market stress, when you most need it'' — ably demonstrates. Other variations:
+[[Unknown known]]s are a source of catastrophic {{risk|risk}}, as the repeal of the [[Glass-Steagall Act]] in 1999 by the [[Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999]] — hello, [[global financial crisis]]<ref>Yes, yes — I know it wasn’t ''just'' the repeal of [[Glass-Steagall Act|Glass-Steagall]] — [[David Bowie]] was also partly responsible — but it didn’t help, did it?</ref> — and the continued use, even now, of the [[Black-Scholes]] option pricing methodology — goodbye, [[LTCM]] — which worked serviceably well to model the price of options ''except in times of market stress, when you most need it'' — ably demonstrates.
-*'''[[Outsourcing]]''', which prioritises unit cost over organisational [[complexity]], [[Subject matter expert|skill and experience]], notwithstanding well-established principles of [[design]] and [[lean production management]];
+Other variations include [[outsourcing]], which prioritises unit cost over organisational [[complexity]], [[Subject matter expert|skill and experience]], notwithstanding well-established principles of [[design]] and [[lean production management]], and the dear old [[360]]° [[Performance appraisal]]s which continue to not just cling to the dwindling autumnal cadence of a bad idea in its twilight years as you’d expect, but rude, fecund summer health, despite compendious research that it is ineffective, prone to abuse, widely resented, and as a promotion strategy suffers in comparison to ''promoting staff at random''.
-*'''360° [[Performance appraisal]]s''', despite compendious research that it is ineffective, prone to abuse, widely resented, and as a promotion strategy suffers in comparison to ''promoting staff at random''. Same applies pretty much everything a [[human resources]] department does, from force-ranking, [[candle problem|compensation culture]]
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