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...margin]] is not rewarding, constructive or fun. But there are thousands of people around the world engaged in doing it, and you can cry into each other’s b ...ing videos quite funny. This is largely down to Ed Parker — one of the few people in the world who manages to see the funny side of [[financial services]] re

...urse on Intercourse]].</ref>, who proved that there must be at least three people in the universe, and since they were all engaged on a [[conference call]],

...it over your shoulder and carry on regardless. This is what ''all'' sales people say, about ''everything''. You may mutter something in response, like “su If your ''risk'' people worry about the client relationship, there is more cause for nerves. You s

...active in its pursuit of legal action against its clients that it employs people on a full-time basis to do that for it — suggests either it is a poor jud

...of saying, stop ''telling'' everyone how good you are, or complaining that people don’t recognise how good you are, and ''show'' them how good you are. Als

...s an invention of the law of {{tag|tort}} which defines the general duties people have to each other ''where they don’t have a {{tag|contract}}''. ...at give rise to obligations (whether they are “[[Neighbour|neighbours]]” – people whom one should reasonably anticipate might be affected by one’s [[Fardel

{{a|people| ...erican Bar Association has a formal opinion on the subject of what to call people you can’t quite make up your mind how to feel about,<ref>Number 90-357, o

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...ontrasted, of course, with ''functional redundancy'': having resources and people available to hit the deck at times of extraordinary stress, but which can u

We all do it, all the time. It is just that some people are in denial about it.

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...ion'', but as memories fade, will asymptotically approach it again. Hence, people these days seem to find the idea of the forms as quite a good one, however

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...[[buzzword]]s, [[legalese]]: that kind of thing. It is funny how the same people who complain about [[legalese]] on LinkedIn love to relentlessly [[leverage

It is also useful in deflating drafting pretensions of people who come bearing gifts like “[[nor anyone acting on its behalf]]”.

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{{a|people|}}Part of the continually-aggrandising titleage on modern management — ev

..., however misconceived, that might lead them to think, “oh, so hang on: do people think port and stilton is only for crusty old men? At Christmas? I didn’t ...will think: “I had better not drink port or eat stilton any more, because people will think I am a a sexless, crusty old bugger who only comes out at Christ

...e of [[Nu|classics]] — and some things you might not, such as the kinds of people [[hedge fund]] managers like to hang out with. A good set of resources over

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...ns Trading Association (to its friends, “[[IETA]]”) is a loose association people who indulge in [[carbon trading]]. It also publishes the IETA Master Agree

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:people ...has been a privilege to work with some of the most incredible, passionate people in the industry! Wishing you all the best, the very best, both professional

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{{a|people|}}A [[magic circle law firm]] headquartered in Silk Street London, once upo

{{g}}A generic description of vaguely pejorative tone to describe those people in the business [[sales]], [[Trading desk|trading]] and [[structurer]]s who

...something of a universal virtue — we must ''all'' be proactive to ''all'' people ''all'' of the time — notwithstanding that it is just as “proactive”

They are the only people you need, or who can help, if there is a “[[twenty-three nineteen]]” al ...in early 2020 it began being used more directly by front of house security people whenever those of an Italian disposition — construed liberally so as to i

...Egg.gif|450px|center|An outsourcing strategy yesterday]]}}Ancient guild of people with a [[management consultant|natural talent for telling grandmothers how

{{a|people|}}Once upon a time the smuggest of the [[magic circle law firm]]s, but sinc

...her five minutes to allow people to join”.}}}}The notion that gathering 17 people around the world to stop what they’re doing and listen to someone run thr ...g words in the English language, there are THIRTY NINE, all fairly senior, people invited to this call. In other words, a full working week of your organisat

...ry to make a dromedary out of ''papier-mâché'' and an old curtain, ask two people you found in a job centre in Bratislava to stand in it so they can’t see

{{a|people|[[File:Rubbish.jpg|450px|thumb|center|The [[counsel]] hard at work yesterda

.... [[Lynyrd Skynrd]], of course, grew famous, and rich, writing songs about people who annoyed them. ''Sweet Home Alabama'' is about the highly annoying — t

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...em, one on one. Individually, [[US attorney]]s are uncommonly good, decent people, and as long as you don’t get them onto the subject of {{tag|US Securitie

...part of the recruitment process, somehow, these days — and so they select people who they think are a “good cultural fit” — that is, ''rather like the ...lore their people to do so at every opportunity, and may even mean it. For people are not punished for calling bullshit: they just ''don’t''. It is ''bred

{{a|people| However imaginative they feel themselves to be, people who work in large organisations — and the [[JC]] speaks here from thirty

{{a|people|}}:''The kiss of the sun for pardon, ...uld be made of sterner stuff, especially as they’ll generally have as many people arriving who can spill such wondrous secrets as they’ll lose in any given

...aders to supply their own adjective)'' — then why is it that so many other people can’t see that? Is there something that ''you'' are not seeing?

{{a|people|}}One who is [[long]] an exalted position, but [[short]] a grisly [[option]

...if I bring my armies into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people and level your city.”}}

{{a|latin|}}A rule that should strike fear into two sorts of people: those who are not [[good egg]]s and do not heed the {{tag|Latin}} maxim ''

...urself, [[cui bono]]? Does the cc: line stretch to the horizon? Will these people care? Do they need to know? Will their professional day be, somehow, enrich

...o not displace the general thrust of the theory.</ref> arrives early, some people arrive late, and experienced meeting participants know of this asymmetric d ..., to be meaningful, a meeting must have more than one, but fewer than two, people.

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...have a headache, but there you have it. And surely it is disingenuous for people like this to talk about “[[customer success]]” — usually muttered in

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...eriv}} — the [[Children of the Woods]], the [[First Men]] and so on — wise people from [[J.P. Morgan|JP Morgan]] and {{icds}} worried that a [[credit derivat ...oes very little to advance the practical fact that in the real world, most people don’t.

...arvesting email addresses and spam them is, it seems to us, bad business. People have made the effort — minimal though it maybe, and with the aim of nicki ...with jokey spam will not win you business, and may impede it, should those people move somewhere that might be interested in the future.

...mpeting agencies, and one is just the sum total of them. And in fact, when people say, “That wasn’t me,” we very often disallow that, and say “Now, t ...omplicated and time-consuming process, and occupying literally hundreds of people full time, and it requires intimate and sophisticated understanding not jus

...xity theory and this one applies it to workplace psychology. These are the people who came up with the idea of “[[high-reliability organisation]]s” which So: as part of your risk management approach, have people whose job it is to look out for minor oddities and trace their route causes

''STEVIE: You have to give people hope.'' If people/clients/staff are continually misusing/misunderstanding a process or produc

...er, active, English verb: “[[must]]” which, if you are to find favour with people like [[Amwell J|me]], you shall be obligated to [[effect]] the deployment [

...h names changed to protect the innocent — broadcast to a group of about 30 people:

...fic Revolutions|brilliant theory]] and succinctly describes what pragmatic people find so excruciating about academic [[philosophy]]. ...g propositions about the nature of the Cosmos, but simply that even clever people like Bertrand Russell sometimes ask silly questions.

...identity. It lacked anything like a detailed “map” of its terrain and its people. It lacked, for the most part, a measure, a metric, that would allow it to Scott’s idea of the “illegible relationships” between people in an economy resonates with {{author|David Graeber}}’s idea<ref>{{br|Deb

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So, head for a bunker if you encounter one of these people, before they easily say something, and assign ''you'' to ensure it is done.

{{a|people|}}A [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] as they say ''en Français'' — une ''[[aig

...re]] which operates it is ''not''. To be sure one can ''generalise'' about people — it is [[Unconscious bias|hard not to]] — these are [[heuristic]]s —

...ible token]]. This is a new asset class specifically designed for gullible people who like to be up with current trends. Non-fungible things are like the dar ...not to mention ''[[blockchain]]'' — and can be sold to uniquely credulous people.

{{a|people|}}If everyone knows [[CEO|him]] — it will always be a him— by his [[Chr

“Ensemble averages” payoffs across a collection of people who roll the same dice once, are very different from the payoffs of the sam The average of a collection of measurements taken from real people, in itself, represents absolutely nothing. Taking new measurements which ch

...seems to be a fun word to say. It sounds technical, and you should expect people in ops to throw it around carelessly, often in connection with a [[client m

*[[Design for average people]]: be realistic about your people’s capability: they will be, on average, ''average''. ...and intelligence about the problems and opportunities in front of you: The people who have those problems and are missing those opportunities. Your current s

{{a|people|[[File:Tolleys Tax Handbook.jpg|thumb|300px|center|If you’re looking for ..., we [[ISDA ninja]]s are a bit weird too.</ref> are a bit weird — that any people who have devoted their lives to the selfless pursuit of any kind of esoteri

So, [[waiver by election]] is not something with which intelligent people — who are not arguing the toss with the [[European Commission]], at any r

...holding fairly normal political opinions in the sixteenth century. Without people like Hume, [[libtard]]s like that — and the rest of us, frankly — would

You would be surprised how many well-paid people who ''should'' know this, ''don’t''.

{{a|people|[[File:Gantt.png|thumb|center|It all seemed so easy]]}}A fellow who knows t

:''A lot of people met the band

...ack — and more to the point they are a failure in [[design]]: if you don’t people to walk on your grass, stick up a fence, or ''pave'' the damn thing, or cre ...your grass, build a fence. But if you want an unfenced lawn and you expect people to walk around it, ask yourself ''why''. Use a hardier grass seed.

...t down the spine of an [[ERISA lawyer]]. The same sort of sensation normal people get watching that closing scenes of ''[[Silence of the Lambs]]''<ref>You kn ...ion]] which is subject to a 15% tax. This is the kind of thing that freaks people out about ERISA.

..., so they stick to the pistes. But one of the worst things about skiing is people getting in your way. It sucks. And it’s dangerous. ...eless lump hits ''you'', whereupon they become hideous. There are a ton of people taking the best lines — and usually ''not'' taking them, but traversing s

{{a|people|}}A hired gun. A freedom-fighter. A soldier of fortune. A fresh pair of han

...nsultant|morons]], [[Sales|charlatans]] — and perfectly likeable, sensible people who are just used to working in a certain way, and quite like it. {{tag|Tec ...do that for you. ''Computers will be worse''. The answer is to hire better people.

...’t trust the law of agency — or their colleagues’ gullibility in believing people are who they claim to be — there’s this neat rep. It is blighted by the

...ration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down. Some people describe this as [[root cause analysis]]. But root cause analysis is a bit

...knowledge you have a work in progress. This can be annoying, especially to people who don’t like to admit things are a work in progress. There will be strong impulse ''against'' iteration from people in the organisation:

...keting]], of all people, tend to stick with “[[marketing]]” — but the good people of [[personnel]] can’t help re-branding themselves.

...s.com/ Lehmans] is an ''online'' hardware shop — ''online'', I say — ''for people who don’t use electricity''. If you access the world wide web courtesy of

...to drive their narrative — write unsatisfying books.<ref>This is why some people find the ''Lord of the Rings'' saga so [[tedious]]: all that delving into t *This process requires too many people and too much oversight. The overheads are too high.

Since you are meant to write epic poems about such people, let us do so.

===It’s about your people, not the [[management consultant]]s you hire=== ...obvious as they are routinely ignored: projects, priorities, processes and people change, and the [[path of least resistance]] is to layer a new process over

...0 (South Africa) and the other of which is an island where lots of Western people go on holiday (Mauritius).

...rom Bucharest]] reading off [[playbook]]s perched on their laps — the more people are actually employed in baffling concatenations of middle management in th

...l eagle|cognoscenti]], do so with poise, confidence and bluster. If enough people do this, it will become a thing.

...:“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were

A simple and effective way of defrauding a lot of people at once. Even though [[Ponzi scheme]]s have been around for literally hundr

...ire institutional knowledge. Nonetheless, management theory likes to treat people like potatoes. They even name them like potatoes: “Human capital” makes ...which an no-one has written a bullet-proof decision tree. It’s hard to see people like this as interchangeable units when you see, up close, what they do and

...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

...ving under a bridge while people on [[Twitter]] — stupid, misunderstanding people — will make fun of you. Think carefully before betting wildly against the