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...wars, a cold one, two political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recessi In Web 2.1 you could like it when other people complained about the books they bought online.

...all intents and purposes, about fifty, but it keeps changing. People come, people go. Business priorities change. [[GFC]]. [[Brexit]]. [[Covid]]. [[Managemen

...ing. This was a more fun game before the world got rocked on its axis by ''people on Reddit'', and the Wikipedia effect came to the financial services market

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...t]] in 1998, the entire [[financial services]] industry in 2008, and those people who mistook [[Sam Bankman-Fried|Sam Bankman Fried]] for some kind of genius

...e of what might yet be. So it should be no wonder that '' that’s what most people do most of the time''. |+ What happens when people miss the point.

...ust be restricted in an almost vicious manner. Use a small number of good ­people (ten to 25 per cent compared to the so-called normal systems). This should ...cret outside it''': Let the people in the group have the big picture. Tell people what you ''have'' achieved, not what you're planning to achieve. Hence: no

{{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] who works for an [[asset manager]] or a [[hedge fund]].

...ion several times — with those of ''parallel'' probabilities — ''several'' people performing a single action once each. If those two payoffs are the same, th ...obable outcomes from flipping a coin are ergodic. It doesn’t matter if ten people flip a coin once, or one person flips it ten times, the odds are the same:

...he first place. When the Yen then rallied 98% in the next 18 months, a few people might have taken a bath. Things got back to normal, but the boring old [[Ne

...a {{tag|contract}}, negotiating one, reading one, going on tour, treating people you meet in your travels, and in life generally.

{{a|people|{{image|Legal eagle|jpg|A [[chicken licken|legal eagle]] yesterday}}}}''Leg ...dress the personnel from the [[legal department]], used by junior [[sales]]people in the sincere but mistaken belief it would ward off, and not compound, the

...sis]], a sign of our credulous times. Every year, Gartner ''[who are these people? What have they ever done? — Ed]'' plots the expectations of emerging tec

...you need to know your organisation is captive of moribund bureaucrats and people with [[MBA]]s.

...ght, but because [[reductionist]]s are so terrified of [[post-modernism]], people tend to swallow it and just go with it, no matter how insane its consequenc

...who admire at least its staggering chutzpah — as the instant solution for people who, one one hand, so distrust financial intermediaries that they would cas

...what'' you say. This is hardly news: {{br|How to Win Friends and Influence People}} is 85 years old. ...out of the debate. You should, too: people are polarised on the issue so, people on either side of the issue are your customers, don’t take a position. Yo