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  • Tolerance
    ...things and opinions that ''you'' don't like. It does ''not'' mean stopping people who hold opinions you don’t like from expressing them. That's called ''in
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  • Reply-all
    {{a|email|}}A tool for easily distressing an unlimited number of people at once, for [[Thx|insincerely thanking]] them, and increasing the total mi Compound the resentment by addressing adult people many years your senior as “[[@]]andy”.
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  • People Anatomy
    #redirect[[Category:People]]
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  • Ninja
    ...png|}}}}A ''deep'' [[subject matter expert]], in something so arcane these people are a blessèd relief to everyone else in the firm, just as long as you don
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  • Right-sizing
    Firing people. Usually [[subject matter expert]]s.
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  • Breakfast in America
    A pop song sung by, and for, people who usually wind up with the [[Opel bloody Kadett]] in [[Top Trumps]]. Samp ...or that reason, to this very day, Breakfast in America infects millions of people around the world - including yours truly - with the delusional hope that on
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  • Market-maker
    {{a|people|}}One who facilitates trades on an exchange.
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  • Solutionise
    ''Ah, people ask me questions'' <br>
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  • Financial service
    ...is 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 An activity whereby a bunch of people without [[skin in the game]] pass [[Ultimate client|your]] [[money]] back a
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  • Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
    ...ce)|Authority]]''': We are more susceptible to following instructions from people in a putative position of authority. As to this see the Milgram experiments ...[[sheeple]] — ''they'' are. They will tend to behave in the same way that people in their social group and of their social status behave. Therefore if you c
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  • Operationalisation
    ...ugh not ''actually'' John Cryan, of course, any more.</ref>, and many good people will be disenfranchised and driven up the wall in the meantime.
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  • Proven track record
    {{a|people| ...on “[[proven track record]]” is on a [[Curriculum vitae|CV]], and the only people who have any use for [[CV]]s are looking for work, and if you are looking f
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  • Financial reporting
    {{a|people|}}“Well [[Enron|you know what happened]] ''last time'' someone tried to m
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  • Documentation unit
    {{a|people|}} *'''[[Chief Operating Officer]]''': Who the hell are these people and why do they cost so much? Where are the economies of scale?
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  • Hermione Grainger
    {{a|people|}}An especially effective member of the {{tag|compliance}} department. [[Mu
    186 bytes (26 words) - 10:41, 2 December 2019
  • Schwarzschild radius of institutional ennui
    People on the other side — your friends, loved ones; people who look up to you; whose respect you may once have earned — will see you
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  • Marketing
    {{A|people| }}Not to be confused with [[sales]], [[marketing]] are the people who — very much against every instinct they have ever had — are obliged
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  • Roll call
    ...those confessions will involve long periods of static, punctuated by five people speaking at once, and the convener will be obliged to ask them all to repea ...ld” means those people on the call, and the worse attendance is, the fewer people there are to witness the humiliation.
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  • The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction
    ...hough controversial — psychological phenomenon: why do good, well-adjusted people who ''could'' intervene to help a person in distress, not always help? ..., when given the opportunity to, don’t?” to the uninteresting one “why are people, and especially young white men, so horrid?” Undeniably true, is neither
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  • Founder and CEO
    {{a|people|}}Got made [[Redundancy|redundant]] after a lifetime clinging on in Operati
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  • Clifford Chance
    {{a|people|}}Magic circle firm. In the “[[extinction]]” camp when it comes to [[li
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  • Salted fish
    People will remember you that way.
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  • Custody chain
    ...esn’t matter. In times of war, of course, as flak rains on your bunker and people are losing their heads, spending the time discovering how a [[custody chain Quite so: given how counter-intuitive it is, people thinking clearly about it ''should'' be confused. The fact that they tend n
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  • You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they are
    ...up other people’s arse, not your own”<br>}}{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a Even if they don’t, most people still like to be told they’re amazing, however implausible or disingenuou
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  • Followers
    ...able or mildly commendable, you are better off having a high percentage of people disliking you and your message (even intensely), combined with a low percen ...his probably points up the difference between Nigel Farage — who polarises people, but he’s hard to ignore — and whoever the leader of the Liberal Democr
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  • Post-modernism
    Most right-thinking people think it’s the problem. Being a contrarian. I think it’s the solution.
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  • Excuse pre-loader
    {{A|people|}}The footballer who shows up with a “slight hamstring strain”; the wor In their heart of hearts, these people ''know''. You do, too. You will know them instinctively. You recognise them
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  • W. Edwards Deming
    ...one above — Mr. Deming was a man before his time. Either that, or we are a people ''after'' his time, since his ideas seem to have been pretty popular at the # '''Training on the job''': Train people on the job. Encourage people to ''learn'' on the job. ''Encourage self-improvement''
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  • Ground up strategy
    The observation that the people best incentivised to identify improvements to your IT offering are the poor
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  • Buy-side
    ...cut off or the Yaris repossessed — but in practice, if these fabled older people even exist, they are represented in the markets by those rapacious titans o
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  • Diaeresis
    {{def|Diaeresis|/dʌɪˈɪərɪsɪs/|pl. n.|}}(''For use impressing people at dinner parties'') The two dots above a continental [[ï]] (as, for examp
    353 bytes (53 words) - 12:26, 13 December 2020
  • System effect
    ...e office. This is a system effect, and not some conspiracy the man against people who can’t be bothered to commute.
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  • Play School through the arched window: title transfer collateral arrangements
    Don't be so STUPID, people. Do you really think Play School did a sequence on [[title transfer collate
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  • ADR
    *[[Alternative dispute resolution]] — mealy-mouthed time-wasting for people in denial about the legal system
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  • Life coach
    {{a|people|}}{{maxim|Those who can, do. Those who can’t, teach. Those who can’t ev ...ersion of yourself}} is having a bit of a laugh, and that so many of these people can be routinely engaged by multinational firms ostensibly populated by tho
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  • Stakeholder
    {{a|people| 1. (''Within an organisation''): Fellow [[bureaucrat]]s. Other people in and around the firm who are paid more to care less. The word for the sen
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  • Master of the universe
    {{a|people|}}A coinage of {{author|Tom Wolfe}}’s to describe Sherman McCoy, ace bank
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  • Top Gun Lawyer
    {{a|people|{{image|Top Gun Lawyer|png|A Top Gun Lawyer, yesterday}}}}A real, proper, [
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  • Boy wizard
    {{a|people|}}In the [[Hary Poter]] argot, a young [[lawyer]] — one flush with the jo
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  • Freshfields
    {{a|people|}}A [[magic circle law firm]] headquartered in London, well-loved by its [[
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  • Designated investment - FCA Rulebook Term
    ...ed investment}}<s/small>}}}}In which the {{t|FCA}}, spurred on by the good people of the [[European Commission]], indulge in the four-dimensional Russian dol ...as the term isn’t defined and clearly means different things to different people.
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  • Trading
    {{a|people|}}The hard bastards of finance. Or the [[Lunch money|meek who have inherite
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  • Onworld
    ...].}}}}A massively-multiplayer online role-playing game, which increasingly people are confusing for real life. This is a shame.
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  • Hotel Belvédère
    ...Travelodge Luton Airport? Sure, make it modern, minimalist and chic. Help people forget where they are. Let them injustice they could be literally anywhere ...should not want to be transported somewhere else. Wengen is a destination. People come here because it is one of the beautiful, magnificent places in the wor
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  • Squadsman
    {{a|myth|}}A crack paratrooper of the law. These people are like the Flying Squad, the Green Berets, they are the French Foreign Le
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  • Client
    {{a|people|}}“Hi Olly. The [[client]] returned the draft agreement. They’re fine w
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  • Chief operating officer
    {{a|people|}}The person whose official job description is to know the cost of everythi
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  • Psychological safety
    ...se intellectual friction, reduce social friction. Create environment where people can challenge ideas
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  • CF10A
    {{a|people|{{image|CASS Garb|png|A [[CASS officer]]’s ceremonial Mithril garb.}}}}Th ...0A]] is next-least coveted position in the organisation, and is awarded to people the same way Joe Pesci became a “made guy” in ''Goodfellas''.
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  • Furnishing
    For most people, the ugly ''chaise-longue'' you were emotionally blackmailed into acquiring
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  • Flexible working
    ...rporation is a social (if not to say ''[[socialist]]'') institution, where people are compensated for unwavering commitment, blood, sweat and tears.
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  • I don't disagree with you
    Closely related expression, courtesy of those wonderful [[Game of Thrones]] people:
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  • Dog-and-pony show
    ...ized corporate organisation. Also, on account of its capacity for creating people who inhabit that layer, the process of obtaining a [[MBA|Masters of Busines
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  • Arthur Andersen
    {{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som
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  • (but need not)
    That is, people ''who should not be [[professional writer]]s''.
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  • The Jolly Contrarian:General disclaimer
    ===For regular people=== ...uff up, so (a) if you find the site valuable, tell your friends — the more people who use it the more chance I have of making something out of it one day —
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  • Chief financial officer
    {{a|people|}}Ideally a stable, steady, dull individual who, in his most passionate mom
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  • It’s not a fucking competition
    {{a|maxim|}}There are ''eight billion'' people in the world. if you think you are in a competition with them, ''you will l Only people who are in a competition try to be like someone else. So don’t be in. Com
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  • Silver circle law firm
    {{a|people|}}A [[law firm]], like [[Simmons & Simmons]], with an aching yen to be [[Ma
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  • ***TOP URGENT***
    ...is, in the subject line, is guaranteed to make every one of the thirty six people to whom you have sent it, drop everything and read your email.
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  • Joint and several liability
    ...aw should be at her side. That her loss is recoverable from a ''bunch'' of people, rather than just one, ought to be a good thing, and will allow her to proc ...as encountered it, he has mainly wished it prevailed more often. Like most people he has
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  • Omnibus
    Means different things to different people.
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  • Meeting avoidance tactics
    ...ogical barriers to candid communication: who calls bullshit in front of 40 people? So do your bit to keep the meeting tight and effective: ...space and time. They impose a boundary within which you must concentrate. People can see you; they know if you tune out. Switch off your phone. Don’t mult
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  • Diver
    {{A|people|}}One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go do
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  • Internal Revenue Code of 1986
    ...ax lawyer|Those who pay them fealty]] tend to be nervy, fractious sorts of people.
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  • Risk controller
    People in these departments: These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got
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  • Opco
    *An [[operating committee]] a vehicle by which dozen s of people gather to stare at weighty [[PowerPoint]] decks and “socialise” — mea
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  • Stupidity
    * Stupid people are ''worse'' that bandits. At least ''someone'' derives a benefit from ban * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are.
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  • Council
    ...ncilium'', the {{tag|Latin}} word for an assembly or convocation of clever people: ''con-'' (‘together’) + ''calare'' (‘to summon’). <br> 1. A municipal body where mediocre people make bad decisions about local affairs. <br>
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  • Passive
    ...ere is what Dr. Eva Dabrowska, of Northumbria University, has to say about people who overuse the passive tense: {{quote|“''Our results show that a proportion of people with low educational attainment make errors with understanding the passive,
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  • Commercial contract
    ...der the [[Sovereign Immunity Act 1978]], [[sovereign]]s being the sorts of people that don’t always do things for commercial, practical, sensible or even c
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  • Certification
    ...effectively destroyed or put beyond practical use will send normally sober people scuttling for exits, leaping into laundry baskets, planking, and painting t
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  • Law firm
    {{a|people|}}Issuer of [[legal opinions]], supplier of [[inhouse counsel]], pliers of
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  • Gumizzler
    ...]] is a “[[jimsler]]” man, though he holds nothing against “[[gumizzler]]” people. </ref> — of enunciating “[[GMSLA]]”, the abbreviation for the {{gms
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  • Statue of limitations
    As the marble hunks fell like great meteors into the sea around them the people cried, “hark! [[Chicken licken|The sky is falling upon our heads]]!” In a final irony, none of the people responsible for either the commissioning of the sculpture, its [[negligent]
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  • Multi-task
    ...Middle-management]] jargon which means to “browse the internet”. What most people do during most [[all-hands conference call]]s and the brazen do during [[me
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  • Homo economicus
    ...[[reasonable man]], and (in tendency to suggest the collective madness of people who should really know better) the [[hypothetical broker dealer]].
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  • Control function
    {{a|people|}}The sainted people who, because they are paid purely to worry themselves about [[Chicken Licke
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  • MF Global
    {{a|people|}}“Never forget [[MF Global]]”: a [[magic incantation]] of similar effe
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  • Compliance
    {{a|people|}}{{d|Compliance officer|/kəmˈplaɪəns ˈɒfɪsə/|n|}}
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  • Results-driven
    ...every application of force to object, however ill-advised, we wonder what people think they are establishing by claiming to be “results-driven”. ...e impact on the world, good or ill — in fairness, that’s a great number of people — then you might want to put something a little more specific in your pro
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  • Communication
    ...e law, but to be able to plainly and clearly communicate that expertise to people who are not. Those people are called “[[clients]]”. Clients — even sophisticated ones — [[Q.E
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  • Calculation period
    ...for example, an [[interest period]]. Of great [[interest]] to the sorts of people who find [[calculation period]]s ''interesting''<ref>There's a fairly weak
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  • Assignment
    ...obligation is to the assignee and not the assignor. This can give certain people the hives, as regards [[AML]] and so on. ...te common to see [[broker]] and service provider contracts refusing to let people assign their rights, at least, not without consent. It isn’t clear why an
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  • ISDA ingénue
    ...re all, in our way, [[ISDA ingénues]], but really the term is reserved for people that might not know you ''never'' say “[[eye-ess-dee-aye]]” and most ce
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  • Introducing broker
    {{a|people|}}The financial services equivalent of one of those bossy friends who is al
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  • Serious people
    ...s people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.” ...reat delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading
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  • Rubbish maxims
    *{{shitmaxim|You do not inspire people by showing them how amazing you are, but by showing them how amazing they a ...appreciate those who lift you up. Be a lifter}} — or, be the one who lets people down and have an equal impact.
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  • Dewey decimal system
    ...Lehmans]]''. Well, it ''was'', any rate. Who knew that an online store for people living off the grid would outlive a Wall Street behemoth?</ref>.
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  • SICAF
    ...xe]]'' is a [[closed-ended]] [[collective investment scheme]] popular with people who speak French. To be compared with a [[société d’investissement à c
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  • Spans and layers
    ...r that McKinsey (38,000 staff),<ref>[https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/how-to-identify-the-right-spans ...a half-hearted commitment to a maximum span of five, from the consultancy “People Puzzles”. Why? Apparently, ''To make performance appraisal easier''. This
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  • Cricket
    ...t simply as a game played between spells of rain over a period of weeks by people wearing old fashioned tennis gear, are prone to writing it off as utterly [
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  • Hooker
    ...ty, such as [[hedge fund]] managers. This goes some way to explaining what people on the left find so contemptuous about the financial services industry.
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  • Muggle eagles
    {{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] unpossessed of any ninjery and unschooled in the ways o
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  • Heroes don’t wear capes
    ...hey don’t seek validation when heroism comes their way, either. Only needy people need [[awards|validation]].
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  • All-hands conference call
    ...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
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  • The Wealth of Nations
    ...any still do, with, “assuming we all pull together for the common good and people aren’t selfish...”
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  • Administrator
    {{a|work|}}{{dpn|/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə/|n|}}One of that class of people who are not [[subject matter expert]]s, don’t understand the [[territory]
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  • Service delivery
    {{a|people| [[Service delivery]] people have thus two principle means of progression in the organisation: either th
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  • Head of the documentation unit
    {{a|people|{{image|Dead man walking|jpg|The [[head of the documentation unit]] yesterd ...t]]. It is an opportunity for advancement, you see: managing three hundred people, in six centres across seven time zones, with a chance to overhaul a broken
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  • Let it go
    ...will live. It will make you stronger. Dwelling on it won’t, and if you do, people you respect will think less of you. And they won’t tell you.
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  • Futures
    ...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
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  • Discourse on the Method
    ...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]],
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  • Modern ISDAs
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  • This will damage the relationship
    ...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
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  • Litigation
    ...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
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  • Do your talking on the pitch
    ...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
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  • Negligence
    ...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
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  • Of counsel
    {{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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  • Grandma Contrarian
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  • Director of legal affairs
    {{a|people|
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  • Centres of profit, cost and waste
    ...ontrasted, of course, with ''functional redundancy'': having resources and people available to hit the deck at times of extraordinary stress, but which can u
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  • Taxonomy
    We all do it, all the time. It is just that some people are in denial about it.
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  • Proverbial school-leaver from Bucharest
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  • Advocaat
    {{a|people|{{image|Keeling|jpg|Should have been a craft beer.}}}}Not a lawyer, even in ...he might have got away with it, and (b) might have shifted a few units to people mistaking it for some kind of microbrewed beer. The JC rather likes the sou
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  • Middle management
    {{a|mgmt|}}{{quote|“The people at Head Office are always frantically busy, drawing up reports and flow cha ...ys find and get rid of — or at least ''deal with'' — an arsehole: the more people in your organisation the easier it is to do.
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  • Platonic form
    ...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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  • Lord Justice Waller
    {{a|people|}}The retired court of appeal judge who held in a [https://www.casemine.com
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  • Competence signal
    ...[[buzzword]]s, [[legalese]]: that kind of thing. It is funny how the same people who complain about [[legalese]] on LinkedIn love to relentlessly [[leverage
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  • Nemo dat quod non habet
    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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  • Heath Robinson
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  • Subject matter expert
    {{a|people|{{image|Morlock|jpg|A [[subject matter expert]], yesterday.}}}}{{dpn|/ˈsʌ ...dly as a [[Morlock]]—a [[subject matter expert]] is one of those benighted people without whom the organisation would not function, who are nonetheless poorl
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  • Chief technology officer
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  • Who says
    ..., 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
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  • Prime Brokerage Anatomy
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  • Officer
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  • Avocat à la cœur
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  • International Emissions Trading Association
    ...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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  • Legal starling
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  • Farewell
    :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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  • Linklaters
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  • Pedantry
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  • Front office
    {{g}}A generic description of vaguely pejorative tone to describe those people in the business [[sales]], [[Trading desk|trading]] and [[structurer]]s who
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  • Proactive
    ...something of a universal virtue — we must ''all'' be proactive to ''all'' people ''all'' of the time — notwithstanding that it is just as “proactive”
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  • Twenty-three nineteen
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  • Worshipful Company of Management Consultants
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  • Allen & Overy
    {{a|people|}}Once upon a time the smuggest of the [[magic circle law firm]]s, but sinc
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  • Pantomime dromedary
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  • Counsel
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  • Master Confirmation Agreement
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  • Snowflake
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  • US attorney
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  • It is not done to call “bullshit”
    ...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
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  • Intrapreneur
    {{a|people| However imaginative they feel themselves to be, people who work in large organisations — and the [[JC]] speaks here from thirty
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  • Gardening leave
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  • Chief risk officer
    {{a|people|}}One who is [[long]] an exalted position, but [[short]] a grisly [[option]
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  • Spartan if
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  • New Zealand
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  • Contra proferentem
    {{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 ''
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  • Cui bono
    ...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
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  • First law of worker entropy
    ...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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  • Outhouse counsel
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  • Relentless focus
    ...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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  • Self-perpetuating autocracy
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  • Potts opinion
    ...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.
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  • Legaltech marketing
    ...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.
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  • Consultant’s reverie
    ...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
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  • Managing the Unexpected: Sustained Performance in a Complex World
    ...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
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  • Behavioural economics
    ''STEVIE: You have to give people hope.'' If people/clients/staff are continually misusing/misunderstanding a process or produc
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  • Obligated
    ...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 [
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  • Middle manager
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  • Fourteenth law of worker entropy
    ...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.
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  • Legibility
    ...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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  • Sales
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  • Master of Business Administration
    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.
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  • Avocat à la cour
    {{a|people|}}A [[mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] as they say ''en Français'' — une ''[[aig
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  • Machines are fungible
    ...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 —
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  • Fungible
    ...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.
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  • Christian name
    {{a|people|}}If everyone knows [[CEO|him]] — it will always be a him— by his [[Chr
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  • Things to know about maths
    “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
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  • Nostro account
    ...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
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  • Design principles
    *[[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
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  • IT department
    ...rom Bucharest]] reading off [[playbook]]s perched on their laps — the more people are actually employed in baffling concatenations of middle management in th
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  • Tax lawyer
    {{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
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  • Waiver by election
    So, [[waiver by election]] is not something with which intelligent people — who are not arguing the toss with the [[European Commission]], at any r
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  • David Hume
    ...holding fairly normal political opinions in the sixteenth century. Without people like Hume, [[libtard]]s like that — and the rest of us, frankly — would
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  • Working capital
    You would be surprised how many well-paid people who ''should'' know this, ''don’t''.
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  • Project manager
    {{a|people|[[File:Gantt.png|thumb|center|It all seemed so easy]]}}A fellow who knows t
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  • Spank Wagon
    :''A lot of people met the band
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  • Signs
    ...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.
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  • Plan assets
    ...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.
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  • Off-piste
    ..., 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
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  • Contractor
    {{a|people|}}A hired gun. A freedom-fighter. A soldier of fortune. A fresh pair of han
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  • Meatware
    ...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.
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  • Authority
    ...’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
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  • Problem solving module
    ...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
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  • Iteration
    ...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:
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  • Human resources
    ...keting]], of all people, tend to stick with “[[marketing]]” — but the good people of [[personnel]] can’t help re-branding themselves.
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  • Lehmans
    ...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
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  • Innovation
    ...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.
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  • The Man from Dundee
    Since you are meant to write epic poems about such people, let us do so.
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  • Seven wastes of negotiation
    ===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
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  • Red Flag Act
    ...0 (South Africa) and the other of which is an island where lots of Western people go on holiday (Mauritius).
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  • Legally significant thing
    ...l eagle|cognoscenti]], do so with poise, confidence and bluster. If enough people do this, it will become a thing.
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  • Bread
    ...:“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
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  • Ponzi scheme
    A simple and effective way of defrauding a lot of people at once. Even though [[Ponzi scheme]]s have been around for literally hundr
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  • Human, all too human
    ...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
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  • Sparklemotion
    ...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
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  • Prime brokerage transactions
    ...ving under a bridge while people on [[Twitter]] — stupid, misunderstanding people — will make fun of you. Think carefully before betting wildly against the
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  • Partnership
    {{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
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  • Steering committee
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  • LinkedIn job descriptions
    ...r example, is traditionally regarded as the most benign environment, where people speak soberly, though not without liberal helpings of [[passive aggression]
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  • Velvet cushion
    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
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  • Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
    {{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
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  • Locust
    ...a Christian Democrat — a [[plague of locusts]] is ''not'' a good sign for people of that disposition.
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  • Partner
    {{a|people|}}[[Partner]]s are the sainted men and women who own, and reap equity benef
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  • Operations
    {{a|people| Operations people soon intuit that to avoid being on the receiving end of [[steerco]] recomme
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  • RESIDENTS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
    ===[[New Hampshire]]people ''deserve'' to be shouted at?=== ===[[New Hampshire]]people ''like'' being shouted at?===
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  • Global financial crisis
    ...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
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  • Operator
    ...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
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  • Copyright
    ...infringement: here the very business motivation for creating them is that people who read them will be prepared to pay for them
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  • Trainee
    {{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
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  • Discretionary trust
    ...ary trust must be identifiable but otherwise may be indeterminate class of people — [[Stratocaster]] owners of the world, for example<ref>{{cite|McPhail|Do
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  • If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room
    '''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
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  • Escalation threshold
    The idea is to condition junior people in other organizational units to escalate ''up'' their formal command chain
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  • Capital allocation
    ...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
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  • The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
    .... Nation-states formed by underlining and emphasising characteristics that people held in common, particularly spoken language. This facilitated rule without
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  • Rocks of Ages: Science and Religion in the Fullness of Life
    ...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
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  • Disclosure required where held under banking exemption - CASS Provision
    ...in connection with [[designated investment business]]. So you have to tell people you are acting as banker when, strictly speaking, you’re not.
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  • Third party
    Tony Blair, of all people, tried to warp the continuum with his ill-fated [[Contracts (Rights of Thir
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  • Anus matronae parvae malas leges faciunt
    We at the [[Jolly Contrarian]] are fond of people like Mrs. Lisle-Mainwaring and her spiritual counterpart, [[Albert Haddock]
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  • Coronavirus
    ...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.
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  • Collateralised emissions obligations
    ...uld chortle, selling these things out to the most vulnerable and credulous people in society: minimum-wage hospitality workers, the elderly, the infirm, the
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  • Regulatory perimeter
    ...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
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  • Data retention
    ...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
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  • Chose in possession
    ...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
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  • The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power
    ...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.”}}
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  • Insurance
    ...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.
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  • Technology paradox
    {{a|tech|}}{{quote|“What people mean by the word ''technology'' is stuff that doesn't really work yet”
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  • Proxy
    Also, a sort of [[Proxy jetlag|synthetic jet-lag]], caused by cohabiting with people — children, usually — who have ''actual'' jet-lag.
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  • Thx
    ...ly-all]] mail, [[thx]] has the potential to vaguely irritate a lot of busy people at once.
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  • The tempest
    ...le, the natural order of things; the normal laws of commerce stop working. People behave erratically, irrationally and unexpectedly. Some who have hitherto b
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  • Redundancy
    “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):
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  • Management consultant
    {{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
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  • Lived experience
    ...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
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  • Techbro on the Clapham Omnibus
    ...w to cheer up British commuters, yesterday.}}}}Say there are 35 reasonable people aboard a Clapham omnibus. Being key workers — nurses, police, teachers an
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  • Comfortable
    ...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
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  • Ally
    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
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  • Don’t take a piece of paper to a knife-fight
    ...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
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  • Dotted line
    ...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
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  • Permitted Receivers - OneNDA Provision
    {{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:
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  • Age of the Dragons
    ...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.
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  • Knowledge management
    ...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
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  • Certainty
    {{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.
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  • Metric
    ...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
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  • Universal affirmative
    ...converted. “All of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”
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  • Novelty fatigue
    ...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
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  • Libtard
    {{a|people|{{image|imagine|png|Some cooped-up [[libtard]]s singing ''[[Imagine]]'' yes
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  • Weeds
    ...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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  • Twitter Rules
    |You may not threaten violence against an individual or a group of people. We also prohibit the glorification of violence. |You may not engage in the targeted harassment of someone, or incite other people to do so. This includes wishing or hoping that someone experiences physical
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