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:''I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.'' The story’s was deeply unpopular with the few people who were even aware of it, let alone bothered to read it. This had somethin

...ertile I am! I can insist on this transparently idiotic legal contract and people still sign it! It is absurd along every conceivable dimension, yet, here I

**''Second'': there needs to be one class of special people who ''are'' allowed to look after your money by keeping it for themselves b

...eploy [[playbook]]s and [[runbook]]s, your machines run on autopilot, your people are scarce and your contract is little more than a [[service level agreemen ...assured annuity from computerisation. Just ask Eastman Kodak, Sears or the people who made aerogrammes. Ask the Parisienne artisan weavers put out of work b

...iation]]'': ''We must do this cheaper.'' The cry went out. “Percy! Find me people cheaper units to negotiate these contracts!”

...accordingly, misprice that asset, and you may be disappointed in how much people will be prepared to pay for it.

...mage|Loyalty Discount|png|}}}}{{dpn|/ˈlɔɪəlti ˈdɪskaʊnt/ |n|}}{{Quote|“Our people are our most valuable asset.”

...ates. While there are pros and cons to including [[DVA]] in earnings, most people see it as accounting gimmickry that doesn’t reflect any true economic val

...g intellectual property. It is not not an exhaustible resource. What other people do with your IP can benefit everyone.</ref> Price becomes an interesting fa

...y converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”

...ciency — ~''cough''~ [[outsourcing]] — then you are getting it wrong. Most people are getting it wrong.

...ness makes a difference. If you are a [[retail bank]], mailing six million people about a change to their current account terms, then ''absolutely'' you want ...tell a million dollar client, it is worth doing in person. Have your sales people [[Talk, don’t email|call]]. This is called [[relationship management]].

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...step or anything — but they are probably related. If interest rated go up, people generally save more, spend less and so business might drop off a bit. But a Interest rate swaps are easier to manage. They are managed by different people in the bank.

...rocess is still too complex to be automated, and is instead carried out by people with even less comprehension of the details, even less incentive to get thi ...:(a) For reasons given above, process reengineering will be carried out by people who<br>

...and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing the online and the [[Offworld]]: specifically mistaking the massi

...depths of a sweaty tropical swamp and prone to cause hallucinations among people not ready for them.

...times. Avoid truncated timelines and arbitrary review periods which force people in to suboptimal behaviour (to leave well alone). Be aware of convenient at

...}From the {{isia}} file, [[US person]] means different things to different people. Even different kinds of [[US Attorney]]. Even the ''same'' [[U.S. Attorney