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A page dedicated to management speak gems that spill from colleagues’ lips and counterparties’ pens from time to time.

Management yogababble

• “We are ready to go on facilitating the go live.”
• “Look, we have to roll through the criticality.”
• “We are driving a relentless focus on customer success.”
• “at end of the day, if the shit hits the fan, it is all about documentation”

Our learned friends

• “Save in the event of its negligence, fraud, willful default or breach of contract or trust, the Custodian shall not be liable to Client in contract, tort, trust, as a fiduciary or under any other cause of action for any Losses arising out of or in connection with its non-performance, partial performance, or misperformance, any of its obligations or duties, express or implied.”

See also

• Management speak