Salesmen and women are the great boon and utter bane of every commercial enterprise; as aggravating yet vital to the organisation’s well-being as the clients the salesperson brings[1].

Salespeople function as a fifth column; a proxy for the client in the interior monologue of a modern investment bank. Which is why they will instinctively parrot that great lie: “all our other counterparties have agreed this”.

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  1. All of whom are platinum, of course.