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

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

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

...wars, a cold one, two political ideologies that murdered a hundred million people between them, and if that wasn’t enough, an enormous, decade-long recessi In Web 2.1 you could like it when other people complained about the books they bought online.

...all intents and purposes, about fifty, but it keeps changing. People come, people go. Business priorities change. [[GFC]]. [[Brexit]]. [[Covid]]. [[Managemen

...ing. This was a more fun game before the world got rocked on its axis by ''people on Reddit'', and the Wikipedia effect came to the financial services market

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

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

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...t]] in 1998, the entire [[financial services]] industry in 2008, and those people who mistook [[Sam Bankman-Fried|Sam Bankman Fried]] for some kind of genius

...e of what might yet be. So it should be no wonder that '' that’s what most people do most of the time''. |+ What happens when people miss the point.

{{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] who works for an [[asset manager]] or a [[hedge fund]].

...ion several times — with those of ''parallel'' probabilities — ''several'' people performing a single action once each. If those two payoffs are the same, th ...obable outcomes from flipping a coin are ergodic. It doesn’t matter if ten people flip a coin once, or one person flips it ten times, the odds are the same:

...he first place. When the Yen then rallied 98% in the next 18 months, a few people might have taken a bath. Things got back to normal, but the boring old [[Ne

...a {{tag|contract}}, negotiating one, reading one, going on tour, treating people you meet in your travels, and in life generally.

{{a|people|{{image|Legal eagle|jpg|A [[chicken licken|legal eagle]] yesterday}}}}''Leg ...dress the personnel from the [[legal department]], used by junior [[sales]]people in the sincere but mistaken belief it would ward off, and not compound, the

...sis]], a sign of our credulous times. Every year, Gartner ''[who are these people? What have they ever done? — Ed]'' plots the expectations of emerging tec

...you need to know your organisation is captive of moribund bureaucrats and people with [[MBA]]s.

...ght, but because [[reductionist]]s are so terrified of [[post-modernism]], people tend to swallow it and just go with it, no matter how insane its consequenc

...who admire at least its staggering chutzpah — as the instant solution for people who, one one hand, so distrust financial intermediaries that they would cas

...what'' you say. This is hardly news: {{br|How to Win Friends and Influence People}} is 85 years old. ...out of the debate. You should, too: people are polarised on the issue so, people on either side of the issue are your customers, don’t take a position. Yo

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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