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{{a|entity|}}A bunch of people getting together to pursue a common business endeavour under which they wil ...course: partnership shares are not equal, and having to sue three hundred people at the same time just to recover a £5,000 debt, and working out exactly wh

{{a|people|[[File:Steerco.gif|450px|thumb|center|A steering committee, yesterday.]]}}{

...r example, is traditionally regarded as the most benign environment, where people speak soberly, though not without liberal helpings of [[passive aggression]

For many this is a deep terror — well, it ''must'' be, seeing how many people doggedly remain employed in the financial services industry for many years

{{a|book review|[[File:Brazil.jpg|thumb|center|450px|Some people doing [[bullshit job]]s, yesterday]]}}This book is ''such'' a missed opport ...d to audit. That is bullshit squared, especially if they’re auditing other people who themselves are carrying out largely bullshitty roles: [[ISDA negotiator

...a Christian Democrat — a [[plague of locusts]] is ''not'' a good sign for people of that disposition.

{{a|people|}}[[Partner]]s are the sainted men and women who own, and reap equity benef

{{a|people| Operations people soon intuit that to avoid being on the receiving end of [[steerco]] recomme

===[[New Hampshire]]people ''deserve'' to be shouted at?=== ===[[New Hampshire]]people ''like'' being shouted at?===

...here you looked, Morgan Stanley was on fire, the world was BURNING man and people were wandering round dazed and shell shocked and living under bridges in Ma

...trapeze artistry required to trick Citi’s antiquated system pay the right people the right amounts: something it did not seem capable of doing straightforwa You can be sure a concatenation of people up the reporting line from the poor fellow who pushed the buttons to — we

...infringement: here the very business motivation for creating them is that people who read them will be prepared to pay for them

{{a|people|{{image|trainee|jpg|[[Sullivan & Cromwell]]’s induction programme, yester ...predictable dumpster fire, which woofs, explodes and quickly burns out as people move on, forget, come to their senses, or are distracted by the next bauble

...ary trust must be identifiable but otherwise may be indeterminate class of people — [[Stratocaster]] owners of the world, for example<ref>{{cite|McPhail|Do

'''Clever people''': Bad news for brain-boxes. They must now continually absent themselves f '''Stupid people''': It is little better for we of the great, face-slapping mediocrity. Even

The idea is to condition junior people in other organizational units to escalate ''up'' their formal command chain

...cosy cultured order of commerce, they won’t change that, but all the same people who should know better — and many who ''do'' know better — will believe *Intermediating: finding people who won’t or can’t contribute capital directly to a business and persua

.... Nation-states formed by underlining and emphasising characteristics that people held in common, particularly spoken language. This facilitated rule without

...religious myself: just more pleasantly disposed to religion and religious people than some of my atheist confreres. ...ously, without unease or mental torment. Dawkin’s best guess is that these people are systematically deluded: hardly a useful or scientific approach, you wou

...in connection with [[designated investment business]]. So you have to tell people you are acting as banker when, strictly speaking, you’re not.

Tony Blair, of all people, tried to warp the continuum with his ill-fated [[Contracts (Rights of Thir

We at the [[Jolly Contrarian]] are fond of people like Mrs. Lisle-Mainwaring and her spiritual counterpart, [[Albert Haddock]

...anufacturer of Lemsip, Nurofen and Strepsils, Durex and K-Y jelly, because people are washing their hands all the time, wearing gas-masks and hazchem suits t ...it not having occurred to anyone that in an actual disaster, four thousand people would turn up in 4X4s and all want lunch at once.

...uld chortle, selling these things out to the most vulnerable and credulous people in society: minimum-wage hospitality workers, the elderly, the infirm, the

...nce if I anchored a mile outside their territorial waters, and invite rich people to sail out on their yachts to see me, for all their investment needs?”}} At what point, in her dealings with the people of Florin, does she become subject to Florin’s laws, customs and most imp

...ue ''because IT people don’t understand what other office workers do.'' It people are fond of saying “email is just a messaging system. It is not a file ma

...hat, before the [[great bifurcation]], was almost inconceivable to frame — people would look at you funny if you tried to distinguish between the physical an

...A town meeting is called where these well-intentioned but basically dense people are confronted with some fairly obvious truths: ...l, if you don’t like what they do, don’t use ’em. That’s the way I see the people’s power is.”}}

...zed [[risk]]. The theory is that by being a small part of a large class of people each of whom paying an affordable running [[premium]], you are protected fr In a group of 1000 people, each has a 1% chance of a £100,000 loss in a ten year period.

{{a|tech|}}{{quote|“What people mean by the word ''technology'' is stuff that doesn't really work yet”

Also, a sort of [[Proxy jetlag|synthetic jet-lag]], caused by cohabiting with people — children, usually — who have ''actual'' jet-lag.

...ly-all]] mail, [[thx]] has the potential to vaguely irritate a lot of busy people at once.

...le, the natural order of things; the normal laws of commerce stop working. People behave erratically, irrationally and unexpectedly. Some who have hitherto b

“If we fix this process, these people will be [[out of a job]].” ...around to the view, after nearly three decades in the city, that ''most'' people have not felt the following):

{{A|people|[[File:Sucked_Egg.gif|450px|center|A management consultant’s strategy yes One of those people with an [[MBA]] who is profoundly deaf to protest “that is easier said th

...social institutions like school, university, work, the internet and, well, people on it who witter on about “lived experiences” all the time. Yes: like ...ce, kids, from the Dale Carnegie school of winning friends and influencing people: frame your interactions with the world in terms of ''others''’ lived exp

...w to cheer up British commuters, yesterday.}}}}Say there are 35 reasonable people aboard a Clapham omnibus. Being key workers — nurses, police, teachers an

...ompare with ''critical'' risks, which are risks that ''don’t'' look big to people who ''do'' understand them, but ''are'' big. They don’t recognise them be ...on’t have to, because should this whole thing turn to mud, ''so many other people'' will be put in the stockade before she is that those lovely portals — s

I mean, do you know what the secret society ''[[senum pallidorum]]'' does to people who break its sacred oaths? These dudes don’t muck around, you know. They

...king ''anything'' in a document that no-one will ever read again, and most people in your organisation wouldn’t understand even if they did, is a really ba ...e market; the experience and expertise of your front-line trading and risk people. Only they can cope with the mortal risks of a [[complex]], non-linear syst

...ontally, by region — meaning the same person can be reporting fully to two people at once, or even more if your management structure cannot be articulated in

{{confianat|2}}The kinds of people you’ll want to allow access to the {{confiprov|confidential information}} ...{confiprov|Necessary Person}}s'''” or something equally [[tedious]]. Those people may be:

...gh energy and a sufficiently plausible straight face to persuade all those people, and their financiers, of its fundamental worthwhileness to even be made? ...of day is, simply put, a cock-up, for which someone – probably quite a few people – will be fired.

...knowledge management system — there is a scale opportunity if you can get people to share their systems in an intuitive way. The best example of this is, of

{{Image|preggie test|jpg|Because even stupid people need pregnancy detector kits. They need them ''more''. }} }}{{quote|If you are wholly predictable, people learn to hack you.

...pg|So long, and thanks for all the fish}}}}{{quote|When everything about a people is for the time growing weak and ineffective, it begins to talk about effic ...rk any target you set to suit themselves. If you tax by number of windows, people will board up their windows.<ref>See James C. Scott’s epic {{Br|Seeing Li

...converted. “All of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”

...ema, [[Outsourcing]], Total Quality Management, [[Human Resources]] — when people go, “okay I see what’s going on here: this seemed fun but is really kin

{{a|people|{{image|imagine|png|Some cooped-up [[libtard]]s singing ''[[Imagine]]'' yes

...department]] in any commercial organisation is a place of entropic stasis. People go there to die. They eventually get crushed under the weight of of tedium, ...d anecdote to support this assertion, but he still feels it strongly: most people in the world who spend the five or more years it commonly takes to qualify

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...ration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down.

...“{{tag|FX}}”. It is a subject which prompts whoops of excitement from some people and howls of anguish from others.

...l supply their labour, time and effort. In the modern argot, we call these people “employees”, though an important nuance — namely, ''servitude'' — i ...rive at the same conclusion: keep basic pay as low as possible, and reward people with a big fat annual bonus. Financial services bonuses can be three, four,

...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

{{a|people|{{image|Credit department|jpg|The [[Credit]] department, yesterday. Or mayb

This is ''not'' the same as saying, as people are prone to, that “a butterfly flapping its wings in the Amazon causes a People who not only should, but do know better, can fall into this trap. “To sho

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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.

{{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

...rough some kind of Lamarckian [[evolution]], for there seem to be only two people on the planet prepared to make such strident arguments to this effect — o

“'''Satisficing'''”— understanding that in times of uncertainty, people care more about ''variance'' between best and worst outcomes, and not just ...e presumption, right or wrong, that the average is where you find the most people, the average is the point every other bastard is targeting too. As {{author

These people depend for their livelihoods on being able to sell that thing for a higher

{{a|mgmt|{{image|khaleesi|jpg|The irony is lost on people we fear.}}{{image|heroes|jpeg|For the slow on the uptake.}} }}{{c|newslette ...just does it, favouring kin, familiarity, tribe and self-identity. Those people you most instinctively identify with.

...badly in need of streamlining its own [[legal]] department is. If you have people prepared to argue the toss about TOBs, you have a working illustration of [

...tives insiders to dine out on your misfortune for many years. I still tell people about an [[Condition precedent|unfortunate partner of Stephenson Harwood]]

But this isn’t to say there aren’t mean-spirited, selfish or illiberal people doing mean-spirited, selfish or illiberal things in the name of social just

...ess you make them'', by performance management or through a [[RIF]]. These people, therefore, are generally ''overpaid''. That’s why they stay.

So people DO still use it. Just not for {{isdama}}s. But actually what an awesome plo

...ly have some grace period: even sanctions imposed when Russia invades give people a small amount of time to divest their offending assets.

...}}}}There is ''actual'' diversity — assembling teams of actually different people from different backgrounds, of different ages, genders, races, with varying ...ed in the image of those whose are already at the top of the industry, the people who made it to the top of the industry are ''mediocre'' and they are ''all

A badge of [[Früheankunftfreude|honour]] amongst people of a certain disposition (“''[[warteschleifenmusikopfer]]''”) — they

...t otherwise see. You could do it too, by calling a physical meeting, where people have no choice to be engaged, rather than a large online Skype gathering, w

...ng hapless local thugs to [[crocodiles]]. Here’s the news, folks: the only people who make money in tax havens by actually living there do so by preparing [[

...id not — even if this risks destroying short term local relationships with people you are outcompeting. ...propels the experimental finding from 2010 that organisations that promote people at random do no worse than those with extensive performance appraisal proce

Set up a "google translate" type dialogue box to train people to put simplified constructions in.

...ttle more than an articulation of the following: if you want to change how people do things, ''make it easier for them''. Not ''harder''.

...time) or ''non''-exclusive (as with [[intellectual property]], where many people can share the right without upsetting each other).

{{a|people|}}''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations

False assumption: that the people who get to the top necessarily deserve it. *''Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'' sold 25,000,000 copies. So even if it were true that these were the diffe

...ponsible for this email. There should be a named individual in it, to whom people can complain. This might encourage that person to spend a moment on user ex

...£100<ref>The eBayers don’t ''have'' to be drunk, but as we all know, most people on eBay ''are'', so this is a bit of dramatic colour.</ref>.

If you are applying a [[runbook]] effectively to a large organisation of people, you have already drastically mis-allocated your resources, since [[meatwar

*Get to know them. Encourage operational people to communicate informally and often. Encourage operational social interacti

Investors are generally diverse, and different people to the [[Manager|investment manager]]<nowiki/>s, and for everyone’s peace ...ie, the [[rentsmith]]s soon arrive: an office manager, some [[operations]] people, a [[general counsel]], and before you know it they are have a full-scale p

...ss on your average mortgage portfolio is about 5%,” these [[super-senior]] people would think, “and I have ''four'' [[tranche]]s below me, absorbing up to

...ils|jpg|Out of my cold dead hands.}}}}''Author’s note. I mean no slight on people who buy tinned lentils. Personally, I quite like them.'' ...ution]] of weekly lentil acquisition. The random variation in purchases by people in the different demographic groups will cause a small fluctuation in in de

Many people around the world make it their business to deal with [[Cayman Islands]] {{t But will anyone ever stump up to let these poor people actually ''go'' out there? Like, even to conduct [[due diligence]] or somet