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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

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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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..., 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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{{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

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...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

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.... [[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

{{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

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...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).

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...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

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...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

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...are like [[black swan]]s — ''exactly'' the same, in fact — only easier for people on [[Twitter]] to be judgmental about. The key, for such a bank executive,

“Good enough” is enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like

But practically — given difficulty understanding what these people actually do, let alone how valuable it is, human frailties, mortal weakness

...e “stupid banker” cases, which involve bankers negligently paying money to people they didn’t mean to, who then refuse to give it back.

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...to be closely correlated. If the fund’s performance is going gang busters, people tend to HODL. If, on the other hand, it’s going full Neil Woodford, expec

...''another'' gestalt psychologist, Sam Glucksberg to make it interesting to people who think investment bankers are poorly incentivised. Glucksberg ran the ca

...ndustry. Today any good-sized institution will have literally hundreds of people in [[onboarding]], [[AML]], [[credit]] sanctioning, [[legal]] and [[documen ...s, is lifted and shifted from a high-cost jurisdiction (where at least the people concerned have some institutional knowledge, some industry experience and a

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*[[Talk is cheap]]: Judge people by what they do, not what they say.

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...ny iteration. Including the source code of the App (like MediaWiki). Allow people to develop it, augment it, improve it (see: “don’t be a futurologist” ...ital/creative commons'''. Release all code as open source. Allow/encourage people to use, develop code without limit.

How to get people to engage. How to get people be step outside their paradigm and rethink something they might not think

Premature, because people have been running Conway models more or less continuously since 1970. None

...ns and provide [[diverse]] perspectives, right? If only ''that'' were what people in the industry used credit ratings for.

...ignatures appended to the document on your counterparty’s behalf belong to people suitably authorised by your counterparty to put them there.

...Indeed, all power structures start off as spontaneous comings-together of people having a common interest. Even people who ''complain'' about power structures — at least ones who do in an orga

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...sh with litigation — much of it conducted by, on behalf of and in front of people with barely the first idea about the complexities of financial services con ...are still around. If anyone will know how an ISDA is meant to work, these people will.

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...and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing their magisteria.

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...cation from panicked people in [[operations|ops]]); gradually it will suck people in from across the organisation ([[legal]], [[litigation]], [[compliance]],

There may be an alternative, better, universe out there where these people are properly self-actualising by wiping tables at Starbucks, but the unhapp

...ber, none are more given to euphemism, and indeed hyperbole, than the good people of [[personnel]] or, as they like to think of themselves, ''[[human capital ...ut that, especially given the lengths the collective goes to find the best people, so many of the ones it winds up with are so ''mediocre''.

...the right circumstances: it might be a to-all communication going to 5,000 people updating them about MiFID 2 roll out, and the simple logistics of setting u

Rightly, none of these people can see how their own role is meaningless — seen in its own terms, it is

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...ion was, for those at the wrong end of the [[agency problem]] — a class of people generally called “[[client]]s” — a moment of beatific liberation, but ...t it turns out the scarce resource is not supply-side bandwidth — the good people at Amazon Web Services have got our backs on that — but demand-side ''att

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...il deposit|customer deposit]]s. Much of its lending is involves lending to people so they can buy houses. ...s on its deposits. Otherwise it will not be in business for long. A lot of people at the bank manage its “market risk” to make sure that happens.

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Will ''these'' people embrace ChatGPT-3? *It does a lot of things that seem cool but most people will never use or understand (Ferrari: going from 0-100 in 3 seconds, trave

'''You spend more time managing other people''': We take this to be a trivial observation: the contractor at the call-ce ...the further up the chain you go, the more time you spend ''managing other people''. Especially given fat-bird syndrome: the porky tweeters on the upper bran

Performance appraisal rewards people who conform to the system; it does not reward attempts to improve the syste

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