'Twas on the good ship Venus.
T'other night over a few cool ones, the conversation drifted around to novels read and enjoyed. One book got a bit of air play as no one could remember the title. Anyway, the story was based on an arms dealer who had in his employ a 'signer'. The 'Signer' as the name implies signed everything from hotel bills to dodgy paper work for arms deals.
About then some bright spark pops up "just like 'he who shall not be named' he cries, 'same deal, gets the dough, gets the kudos, gets the publicity but no real horsepower, at all'. The 'debate' ended up hilarious (as these thing do) but not until a few good points (and pints) had been made. ("My boys you should have seen us; the figure head, in the Captains bed' etc.)
Anyway, the questions are –
Does being the signer give you the horsepower to act independently or, do you remain a cat's paw for the power behind the throne?.
Just how far, as the 'signer' of things would the power behind the throne allow you to chart down your own course?.
There's lots of good arguments in there, one way and the other. Thought I'd hand it over to our learned colleagues for discussion.
Handing over.
Last edited by Kharon; 24th Mar 2012 at 04:12.
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