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...rporation is a social (if not to say ''[[socialist]]'') institution, where people are compensated for unwavering commitment, blood, sweat and tears.

Closely related expression, courtesy of those wonderful [[Game of Thrones]] people:

{{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som

...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

That is, people ''who should not be [[professional writer]]s''.

===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 —

{{a|people|}}Ideally a stable, steady, dull individual who, in his most passionate mom

{{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

{{a|people|}}A [[law firm]], like [[Simmons & Simmons]], with an aching yen to be [[Ma

...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.

...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

Means different things to different people.

...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

{{A|people|}}One who on the merest suggestion of a contact, however benign, will go do

...ax lawyer|Those who pay them fealty]] tend to be nervy, fractious sorts of people.

People in these departments: These poor people are the wrong side of an asymmetric option: no [[risk controller]] ever got

*An [[operating committee]] a vehicle by which dozen s of people gather to stare at weighty [[PowerPoint]] decks and “socialise” — mea

...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>

...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,

...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

...effectively destroyed or put beyond practical use will send normally sober people scuttling for exits, leaping into laundry baskets, planking, and painting t

{{a|people|}}Issuer of [[legal opinions]], supplier of [[inhouse counsel]], pliers of

...]] is a “[[jimsler]]” man, though he holds nothing against “[[gumizzler]]” people. </ref> — of enunciating “[[GMSLA]]”, the abbreviation for the {{gms

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]

...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

...[[reasonable man]], and (in tendency to suggest the collective madness of people who should really know better) the [[hypothetical broker dealer]].

{{a|people|}}The sainted people who, because they are paid purely to worry themselves about [[Chicken Licke

* Stupid people are ''worse'' that bandits. At least ''someone'' derives a benefit from ban * We systematically underestimate how many stupid people there are.

{{a|people|}}“Never forget [[MF Global]]”: a [[magic incantation]] of similar effe

{{a|people|}}{{d|Compliance officer|/kəmˈplaɪəns ˈɒfɪsə/|n|}}

...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

...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

...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

...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

...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

{{a|people|}}The financial services equivalent of one of those bossy friends who is al

...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

*{{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.

...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>.

...xe]]'' is a [[closed-ended]] [[collective investment scheme]] popular with people who speak French. To be compared with a [[société d’investissement à c

...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

...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 [

...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.

{{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] unpossessed of any ninjery and unschooled in the ways o

...hey don’t seek validation when heroism comes their way, either. Only needy people need [[awards|validation]].

...any still do, with, “assuming we all pull together for the common good and people aren’t selfish...”

{{a|work|}}{{dpn|/ədˈmɪnɪstreɪtə/|n|}}One of that class of people who are not [[subject matter expert]]s, don’t understand the [[territory]

{{a|people| [[Service delivery]] people have thus two principle means of progression in the organisation: either th

{{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

...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.