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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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  • Arthur Andersen
    {{a|people|}}A cautionary tale. The great [[falsification]] of [[Chicken Licken]]: som
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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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  • (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
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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
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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
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  • Rory Sutherland
    ...ration of the journey. You’ll still have about £3 billion pounds left and people will ask for the trains to be slowed down.
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  • Foreign exchange
    ...“{{tag|FX}}”. It is a subject which prompts whoops of excitement from some people and howls of anguish from others.
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  • Bonus
    ...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,
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  • Modernism
    ...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.
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  • Chess
    ...all intents and purposes, about fifty, but it keeps changing. People come, people go. Business priorities change. [[GFC]]. [[Brexit]]. [[Covid]]. [[Managemen
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  • Hedge fund
    ...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
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  • Credit officer
    {{a|people|{{image|Credit department|jpg|The [[Credit]] department, yesterday. Or mayb
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  • Butterfly effect
    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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  • Legal process outsourcer
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  • Knowable unknown
    ...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
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  • Interminable game
    ...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.
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  • Buy-side legal eagle
    {{a|people|}}A [[legal eagle]] who works for an [[asset manager]] or a [[hedge fund]].
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  • Ergodicity
    ...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:
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  • Carry trade
    ...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
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  • Non sis arsholeus nec mercatum cum arsholibus facias
    ...a {{tag|contract}}, negotiating one, reading one, going on tour, treating people you meet in your travels, and in life generally.
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  • Legal eagle
    {{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
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  • Hype cycle
    ...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
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  • Service line
    ...you need to know your organisation is captive of moribund bureaucrats and people with [[MBA]]s.
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  • Determinism
    ...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
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  • Blockchain as a service
    ...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
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  • Ask nicely
    ...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
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  • Daniel Susskind
    ...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
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  • Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don’t Make Sense
    “'''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
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  • Bid and offer
    These people depend for their livelihoods on being able to sell that thing for a higher
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  • Empathy and compassion
    {{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.
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  • Terms of business
    ...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 [
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  • Swap
    ...tives insiders to dine out on your misfortune for many years. I still tell people about an [[Condition precedent|unfortunate partner of Stephenson Harwood]]
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  • Critical theory
    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
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  • Mediocrity drift
    ...ess you make them'', by performance management or through a [[RIF]]. These people, therefore, are generally ''overpaid''. That’s why they stay.
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  • Telex
    So people DO still use it. Just not for {{isdama}}s. But actually what an awesome plo
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  • Change in law
    ...ly have some grace period: even sanctions imposed when Russia invades give people a small amount of time to divest their offending assets.
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  • Diversity
    ...}}}}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
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  • Hold music
    A badge of [[Früheankunftfreude|honour]] amongst people of a certain disposition (“''[[warteschleifenmusikopfer]]''”) — they
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  • Adjacent possible
    ...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
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  • Runner Runner - Film Review
    ...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 [[
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  • Promotion at random
    ...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
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  • The Hopper
    Set up a "google translate" type dialogue box to train people to put simplified constructions in.
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  • Seventh law of worker entropy
    ...ttle more than an articulation of the following: if you want to change how people do things, ''make it easier for them''. Not ''harder''.
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  • Licence
    ...time) or ''non''-exclusive (as with [[intellectual property]], where many people can share the right without upsetting each other).
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  • Chief executive officer
    {{a|people|}}''A propos'' the cult of personality that attends all large organisations
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  • Mediocre you
    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
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  • User experience
    ...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
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  • EBayer’s dilemma
    ...£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>.
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  • Runbook
    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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  • Know your client
    *Get to know them. Encourage operational people to communicate informally and often. Encourage operational social interacti
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  • Family office
    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
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  • First-loss
    ...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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  • Lentil convexity
    ...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
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  • Cayman Islands rum cake
    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
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  • Co-head
    ...[[HR]], with the first clue about human nature<ref>It goes without saying people in human resources have not the first clue about human nature.</ref> buys t {{c2|People|Office life}}
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  • Stock loan ninja
    {{a|people|{{image|Stock Loan Ninka|png|Deep into the plumbing of the financial system
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  • The future
    This history of the world is stuffed with injustice. Few people in the history of the world cannot tell you a story about how they were don
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  • Black duck
    ...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,
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  • Perfection is the enemy of good enough
    “Good enough” is enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like
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  • Cost-value threshold
    But practically — given difficulty understanding what these people actually do, let alone how valuable it is, human frailties, mortal weakness
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  • Stupid banker cases
    ...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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  • Good standing
    But your onboarding and credit people ought to be — well — ''doing their job'', and if they are l, weaknesses
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  • Synthetic prime brokerage
    ...ity swap]]s, [[contracts for difference]]<ref>This has been apt to confuse people; be warned.</ref> or [[high-delta equity derivative]]s.'' Cryptic crossword ...in, that it had any.</ref> it has not vanished entirely so, if your US tax people run true to the [[JC]]’s experience, you may have to persevere with it.
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  • Net asset value
    ...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
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  • Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
    ...''another'' gestalt psychologist, Sam Glucksberg to make it interesting to people who think investment bankers are poorly incentivised. Glucksberg ran the ca
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  • Great dogma of contract negotiation
    ...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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  • Negotiator
    {{a|people|[[File:Mithril.jpg|center|450px|frame|Some discreet [[hobbit]]s yesterday.]
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  • Legaltech entrepreneur
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  • Frank
    ...ght a list of 4.5m actual high school students, college students and young people from a marketing firm for $105,000. ...to the JPMC client outreach team. Javice sent botch up of the actual young people data list they bought.
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  • Maxims for a happy life
    *[[Talk is cheap]]: Judge people by what they do, not what they say.
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  • Assignment by way of security
    ...loating charge|floating]] charge, which means you may wind up behind other people in the queue.
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  • LegalHub
    ...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.
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  • General systems unit
    How to get people to engage. How to get people be step outside their paradigm and rethink something they might not think
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  • Conway’s Game of Life
    Premature, because people have been running Conway models more or less continuously since 1970. None
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  • Ratings notches
    ...ns and provide [[diverse]] perspectives, right? If only ''that'' were what people in the industry used credit ratings for.
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  • Signing authority
    ...ignatures appended to the document on your counterparty’s behalf belong to people suitably authorised by your counterparty to put them there.
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  • Power structure
    ...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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  • The post truth world
    When events are significantly outside the standard deviation, people will react, pushing their own reaction outside the standard deviation - the ...ey remember events and can watch and assimilate events happening to other people, and more importantly they repeatedly interact. 100 dice rolls are discrete
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  • Email
    ...ail? This is especially good for filtering meeting requests. Best to keep people guessing whether you will show or not. Those who really care will call you. ...deed cannot be deleted, and their membership is maintained through time by people in relevant roles - folks move around in big organisations. Ensure those em
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  • Swap It Out
    ...ultimately [[swap]]ping hearts, which among young, uncynical and unscarred people such as Mr Bieber and his “beliebers”, are largely [[fungible]], the {{
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  • Lateral quitter
    ...eplacement cost of a lateral quitter}}}}{{C|newsletter draft}}{{quote|“Our people are our most precious resource.” ...ther with one at all — suggests corporations systematically undervalue the people they are losing.
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  • Blockbusters: Why Big Hits and Big Risks are the Future of the Entertainment Business
    ...nds (but never quite gets) to 100%: All other things being equal, the more people see your movie, the greater your profit margin will be. ...ref> and other resurgent business lines: don’t try to be all things to all people; clear out your inventory, figure out what you’re good at and hit that ch
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  • King’s Counsel
    ...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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  • Brown M&Ms
    ...e numbers” in it — Ed.''] because there was so much equipment, and so many people needed to make it function. For example: “Article 148: There will be fift
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  • Non-overlapping magisteria
    ...and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing their magisteria.
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  • Rule 105
    ...the 5 days before the pricing of the offering). It is designed to prevent people from manipulating the price of secondary offerings by shorting the securiti
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  • Fire drill
    ...cation from panicked people in [[operations|ops]]); gradually it will suck people in from across the organisation ([[legal]], [[litigation]], [[compliance]],
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  • Get your coat
    There may be an alternative, better, universe out there where these people are properly self-actualising by wiping tables at Starbucks, but the unhapp
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  • Compensation
    ...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''.
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  • Dear Client
    ...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
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  • Mitigating the agency problem
    Rightly, none of these people can see how their own role is meaningless — seen in its own terms, it is
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  • Legaltech roll of honour
    ...altechbros]] he knows about. This comes, at first, from those enthusiastic people at ''Legal Geek'' and their “[https://www.legalgeek.co/startup-map/ start ...r lucre it sought for inclusion. We know some of the owners: they are good people. But — well, diamonds in the muck, and all that.
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  • Disintermediation
    ...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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  • Contractual interpretation
    ...g" reflects the common sense proposition that we do not easily accept that people have made linguistic mistakes, particularly in formal documents. On the oth ...s is an over-energetic way to describe the process of interpretation. Many people, including politicians, celebrities and Mrs. Malaprop, mangle meanings and
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  • Informal systems
    The model itself, by its existence, queers the pitch, skews incentives. People optimise for the model, often undermining the model’s original goals — ...[High modernism|high modernists]] are the systems theorists and complexity people, two of whom are featured in the video in the panel. Joe Norman<ref>https:/
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  • Accession
    Nonetheless, the attractions of accession still seems to elude people in the industry whom you might think would know better. For, them the JC ha
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  • David Bowie, Dad’s Army, and financial armageddon
    ...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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  • Keep your eye on the ball
    ...ce of commodities is barely changed by the [[metaverse]]. People must eat. People need shelter. The resources of the planet are scarce and growing scarcer. T The problem of putting food on people’s tables and rooves over their heads will not be solved.
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  • Normal distribution
    ...ssian]]” distribution, after the chap who first formulated it, but only by people who are trying to sound clever.</ref> of a series of events, indicates that ...endency, on the time [[Mrs. Pinterman]] shows up. The chance that all 400 people should arrive and try to enter the theatre at the same moment is more or le
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  • Microsoft Word
    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
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  • Line manager
    '''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
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  • The Essential Deming
    Performance appraisal rewards people who conform to the system; it does not reward attempts to improve the syste
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  • Structurer
    {{a|people|[[File:Top gun actor.png|450px|thumb|center|A top gun [[structurer]], yeste
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  • Dispute, controversy, difference or claim
    ...ite out of concern for the personal well-being of those given to provoking people. Like the [[Jolly Contrarian|JC]], who is not above airing his controversia
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  • Ultimate client
    ...wiss financial advisors who are pleased to pitch them “investment ideas” — people who have got ''so much money'' they don’t notice that their advisors reli
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  • Sell-side
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  • Cynical Theories
    ...as [[Theory]] diagnoses about other socio-political power structures: once people have intellectual and economic power, through their organisation, they do n ...ve of, and must be subordinated to, the “lived experience” of marginalised people.
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  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities
    ...opportunity for development. If the whole place has gentrified, there will people who can’t afford to live there. ...e more we have of it — that the sight of people in the street ''attracts'' people, and does not, as the modernists suppose, repel them — tell us about our
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  • Emergence
    ...mption, but the the pattern that emerges from the aggregate of billions of people's data consumption. ''No one cares about you''. Your habits are probably pe
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  • Molesworth self-adjusting thank-you letter
    ...ways, allowing the business folk to get on with whatever unseemly business people of commerce do, in these straitened times. ...stances you want, respectively, to sustain or resist, before your business people can get busy with it.
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  • Bulltard
    ...ven period is the crisis that will eventually do for it. Especially if the people of that period have no reasonable inkling of what is coming.
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  • Perfection
    But as a people, we have lost our passion for the ineffable. A few years ago, those dour [[
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  • Crack drafting squad
    {{a|people|{{image|text machinery|png|An [[AI]] rendering of the crack drafting squad,
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  • Fifteenth law of worker entropy
    ...d p[ave the way for the ninth law of worker entropy,<ref>“As the number of people involved in negotiating a contract goes up, its brevity, comprehensibility
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  • Bezos memo
    ...o get it right, keeping it as simple and robust as possible. This prevents people from building fiefdoms, constructing critical dependencies on their bespoke
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  • Lake Views: This World and the Universe
    ...on the penultimate page of this collection of essays. “There are plenty of people without religious faith who live exemplary moral lives (as for example, me) ...atheist? If there's no God, what is the special attraction of a land where people are lobbing missiles over your back fence all the time?
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  • Substance and form
    ...on for the front part of the [[Gartner peak inflated expectations curve]]: people are fundamentally mediocre, unimaginative, but very good at glomming onto a ...op-down modernist creation myth that grows ever stronger as there are more people incentivised to perpetuate it. Inward-looking management becomes ever more
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  • Prime broker
    ...lawyers hate the [[Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999]], and why people insist on [[counterparts]] clauses. ...g|hedge fund}}s get off the ground: setting it up, finding offices, hiring people, engaging lawyers, recommending (cough) [[prime broker]]s, and [[capital in
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  • Structured investment vehicle
    This all only works, of course, as long as people remain prepared to buy your commercial paper when it rolls every month. In
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  • Ignore
    ...ualised risk: this is how an insurer makes money. If it provides a million people with fire insurance at £300 per annum and, actuarially, expects five hundr
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  • Information
    ...matically, investing in their author some proprietary rights to stop other people reproducing the creation. It does not apply to all kinds of information - t
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  • Simulation hypothesis
    :''(3) The fraction of all people with our kind of experiences that are living in a simulation is very close ...impossible to try at home, of course — which is, perhaps, why intelligent people like [[Neil deGrasse-Tyson]] who ought to know better — fall for it.
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  • Omega
    ...ut'' [[coronavirus]] may have all the makings of a good [[end of days]] if people don’t get a grip and satisfy themselves they have enough low-calorie soya
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  • Execution date
    ...versight is another’s gainful employment, and hunting down and castigating people for creating undated agreements will provide rich fodder, for years, for ou
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  • Agent
    ...tract, by well-trodden legal theory, depends upon the state of mind of two people, whereas where an agency exists, the necessary parts of that consensus can
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  • Bitcoin
    ...g a troy ounce of gold, exceeds the present value of a troy ounce of gold, people stop mining gold. ...presenting the worth of a given merchant’s assets. It naturally accrued to people according to their existing ''wealth''. There was no gold rush — another
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  • The human touch
    ...ight, or political capital to be bothered correcting the wrong impression. People may have pride in the form: large organisations may prefer portfolio standa
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  • Diversity and inclusion
    ...to create an environment that brings the power of diversity to life; where people with different backgrounds and experiences thrive in both their professiona
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  • Diversity paradox
    ...s'' that what we want? Historicists might say no?) implies somehow letting people form and protect their own in-groups. ''Exclusivity must be allowed. It can
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  • Service catalog
    ...ave the time of one lazy arse who would rather waste twenty hours of other people’s time rather than one of his”. Yet these activities, and ones like the ...dressed by the enterprise to improve itself”<ref>In other words, by firing people.</ref>
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  • Net promoter score
    ...gregate data spinning off an “NPS” question is considered, by the sorts of people who should know better but don’t, as a good [[proxy]] for forecasting bus
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  • Office entropy
    '''Law 9''': As the number of people involved in a negotiation goes up, its brevity, comprehensibility and utili
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  • Eagle Squad
    ...rd'' of [[modernist]] frippery by which our management overlords can impel people from the back office to keep shunting whatever rock they are assigned to sh
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  • Blockchain
    ...else in the world, a cryptocurrency can only acquire extrinsic value ''by people attaching value to it''. But that means blockchain miners must find someone ...permissionless blockchain ''needs'' bullish speculators to work. It needs people with an unshakeable confidence in an invented currency. This is not a curio
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  • Thirteenth law of worker entropy
    ...ience, skill and hubris required to competently manipulate text, the fewer people can do it and, by ordinary principles of supply and demand, the more they c ...ny commercial moment has ever depended on an NDA, the howlers persist: the people — and [[Machines are fungible|machines]] — engaged to process them need
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  • Mark-to-market
    ...that price.</ref> and the market [[liquid]]<ref>Meaning there are lots of people in the market for that asset at that time</ref> then however estimable your ...ng to value your asset by reference to the prevailing price at which other people are buying and selling assets ''like'' yours — while at the same time ''n
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  • Brother Maynard drafting
    :AND the LORD did grin and the people did feast upon the lambs and sloths and carp and anchovies and orangutans a
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  • Legal services delivery
    ...ref>Kodak ''invented'' the digital camera. It still killed them.</ref> Ask people who used to make postcards and aerogrammes. The reason the “buzz” has “shifted to delivery” is that the sort of people who “buzz” are in management, or management consulting, and ''they have
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  • Redefinitions
    ...paul-hollywood-i-dont-trust-people-now-im-a-hermit-l0z8jcmd3 I don’t trust people now. I’m a hermit]''”. Paul Hollywood, ''The Times'' Magazine, Saturday
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  • Guide to the legal profession
    ...do and who we all are. We are, in that regard, all the same: we screen our people to make sure [[D&I]] is a fundamental part of their, and therefore our, DNA ...ry error]] the [[Critical theory|critical theorist]]s made: to assume that people want professional guides in order to ''read'' them.
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  • Paradigm failure
    ...said, as a defensive strategy, incumbents should surround themselves with people who can exercise on the plan but do ''not'' have the gumption or charisma t
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  • End-to-end principle
    ...complications, intelligence and {{risk|complexity}} at its ''edges''. Let people build whatever structures they like on it — if it is a [[digital commons] One consequence of this design, then, is that people can innovate for this network without any need to coordinate with any netwo
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  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
    ...an immensely powerful idea. Not only does it undermine the certitude many people have about their own ways of life, it seems to opens the door to all the wa That we might not be able to terrifies a lot of people, especially scientists, and Kuhn gets a lot of the blame for this state of
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  • Third law of worker entropy
    ...of fun but unimportant activities fall into the general bucket of “telling people what to do”.
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  • Panel discussion
    ...ough [[LinkedIn]]’s oily midwifery: the ''[[panel discusser]]''. These are people who spend most of their working lives attending, moderating or speaking on
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  • Burgess Shale
    ...r crust ''actually pricing derivatives'', not conjecturing about how other people do it. But this will not matter: the piece will spread like wildfire around So will begin the hue and cry for something tangible, visible and fixable for people to do, so these grim happenings can be put away forever.
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  • Everyone is fighting a battle you know nothing about
    {{image|Okay|png|}}{{image|Okay 2|jpg|It’s okay to judge people who lie down for meetings.}}}}{{quote| If only people would ''belt up'' about their goddamn personal problems, every now and then
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  • Hedge Position Adjustments - Equity Derivatives Provision
    ...little pure risk being run here: this one is far enough down the tail that people tend not to die in a ditch about it on either side of the argument.
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  • Horizontal and vertical escalations
    ...in any case the whole point of juniorisation is to get rid of ''trained'' people — [[subject matter expert]]<nowiki/>s — and have the process carried ou
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  • Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
    ...al truth of investing that anyone could use, useful precisely because most people think they know best:
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  • And, as the case may be, or
    ...ession couldn’t get any worse than the lily-livered “[[and/or]]”, the good people of the {{eccds}} say “hold my beer, wine and, as the case may be, or, oth
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  • Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
    It is better to have lots of people hating your idea but a few very loyal supporters than everyone being lukewa ...y Ford: people don't know what they want until you give them it. Don't ask people what they want. <br>
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  • The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science
    ...that this book is beyond my grasp and almost certainly wasn’t targeted at people like me, so those with the requisite background should disregard my vote an
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  • Murder your darlings
    *''Avoid [[definitions]]''. Mostly, people can figure out what you mean without doubt from the context. Only use defin
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  • World peace
    ...ets to decide, and what’s to stop ''them'' tilting the scales, and what of people who legitimately disagree?”
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  • Thinking in Systems
    ...ibing as it does basically liberal approach — small “l” liberal, that is — people are going to do what they do, and banning them isn’t going to work: bette
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  • Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974
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  • Utopia
    ...’s coming to me is swamped by the happy thoughts that so many other odious people are going to get what's coming to them. *Educated people get to be ruling officials and priests and they get the best food.
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  • Inhouse counsel
    {{a|people|{{image|legal eagle|png|Know me by this name: EAGLE NINJA.}}}}{{d|Inhouse c
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  • Candle problem
    ...any influence is listening to them''. The reason for that is because ''the people with influence are all on the phone to their Aston Martin dealers''.
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  • Asset-backed security
    Different things to different people. In the Eastern wilds on the old side of the Atlantic, bascially any repack
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  • Inhouse legal team of the year
    {{a|people|{{image|Legal awards|png|Just a golden envelope away}}}}To bring some rigou
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  • Eagle squad
    **People power: The value of interpersonal relationships. Go see the client. Build r
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  • Silicon Valley Bank
    ...ns out, be shipping a mean old levy that will make them weep and moan. The people who do okay out of this are the depositors — yes, yes, they are horrid te
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  • Virtue marketing
    ...with the idea of veganism, to whom the vegan pitch might work — but these people will be just as susceptible to a pitch that ''this is delicious Thai food''
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  • Legal
    {{a|people|[[File:Eagle over grand canyon.jpg|center|450px|thumb|How we think of ourse ...s is wishful thinking). But any rate, you can read. Yes, even you [[sales]]people.
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  • Regulatory change
    ...g anyone any work; it is ''creating'' a whole new field of work. There are people whose entire career specialism is “regulatory change management”. I mea
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  • Probability
    Profound implications for [[Averagarianism|averagarian]]<nowiki/>istas and people, like [[William MacAskill]] and, well, [[Chauncey Gardiner]] think about th
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  • Discredit derivatives
    Eventually, though, people started to bridle again — I mean, could a polluter ''really'' just take i ...sment at precipitating a series of minor earthquakes on a local indigenous people with a Dutch pornographic film distributor’s regret for generating artifi
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  • AP Picture Houses v Wednesbury
    ...ver the country I have no doubt on a thing of that sort honest and sincere people hold different views. The effect of the legislation is not to set up the co
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  • Averagarianism
    Averagarianism that forces actually different people into generic categories. It imputes commonalities that don’t really exist
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  • Email disclaimer
    ...t ''won’t'' be: you don’t protect confidences by randomly emailing them to people); its [[copyright]] (and it ''might'' be, but the commercial value of an el
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  • Conclusive evidence clause
    ...en, entertainingly, those without [[indemnities]] — to the point where few people know what the provision is even for, and even fewer challenge it. Well, dea
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  • Decision-making
    ...entific Management]] theory of the game) and, by extention (ii) the senior people occupying higher rungs on the decision-making ladder got there through prom ...and they are expected to select for ''administrative'' qualities (budget, people and cost management) and in practice select defensively for self-similarity
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  • Golgafrincham
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  • Culpa in contrahendo
    ...uld you hope — or fear — in any case? This is an NDA, for crying out loud. People don’t sue on NDAs.
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  • Prisoner’s dilemma
    Two people are charged with a conspiracy<ref>Whether or not they are guilty is beside
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  • Reasonable person
    ...range a chance it must have been that has picked fortuitously from a whole people no fewer than twelve examples of a species so rare, they immediately invest
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  • Change paradox
    These people, if they know what is good for them, ''do not really want change''. ...e ascends that greasy pole is relentless, unending and brutal. It fashions people, the way a river fashions stone.<ref>Now you may notice ''another'' [[parad
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  • Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball Company
    ...and that it would be no advantage to the defendants if the thief or other people used them. The answer to that, I think, is as follows. It is quite obvious
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  • The Cult of the Amateur
    ...s so instinctively dismissive about amateur contributors to the internet — people like me — it’s hardly surprising that I should instinctively dismiss hi ...idelity. Except that it doesn’t, since it has literally millions of them — people like you and me — who can offer our tuppence worth gladly and without tho
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  • Side letter
    ...or ''less important-looking'' than the main agreement it circumvents, that people can “get themselves [[comfortable]]” pretending the side letter is not
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  • Legaltech startup conference
    ...y on the pretext that, while it is a good idea, it is also an obvious one, people all over the world have been having it for years, and it would be hard to m
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  • LIBOR rigging
    ...stics/tables|Bank of England statistics}}'').</ref> On the other hand most people borrow for a fixed term and want certainty on how much interest they must p Happy, unadventurous stuff, carried out by happy, unadventurous people. Look: we don’t want to run the interest rate-setting crowd down, but bef
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  • Splash quotes
    ...ld consciousness.” — Dr. Louis Judd, ''The Anatomy of Atavism'' (via ''Cat People'' (1942)) <br>
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  • The Checklist Manifesto: How To Get Things Right
    ...edures by means of the grisly misdeeds that happen when you carelessly cut people open, might seem a tough one.
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  • Software-as-a-service
    ...se, it will need a good deal of energy, expertise and effort from ''your'' people to configure it; energy [[change adoption|they will be disinclined to provi Notwithstanding breathless claims to the contrary from people who should really know better — who ''do'', in fact, know better — this
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  • Equity derivatives dispute rights
    ...e legal obligations. A market disruption is nobody’s fault. They are smart people — [[subject matter expert]]s, indeed — in possession of all available i
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  • The Mismeasure of Man
    ...ed is liable to be misinterpreted by unscrupulous (or simply unsuspecting) people, particularly if they have a particular social agenda which would find it c
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  • Reasons to hope we are in a post truth world
    ...uthists — you claim some kind of mythical prior general accord between all people that has recently been upset — it is up to you to prove it. Where was it? ...eing described as “[[power structure]]s”, because they complain when other people form them, but they are. Let's call them social enterprises because they se
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  • SPAC
    ...and which shewed, more completely than any other, the utter madness of the people, was one started by an unknown adventurer, entitled “A company for carryi ...g, at nine o’clock, this great man opened an office in Cornhill. Crowds of people beset his door, and when he shut up at three o’clock, he found that no le
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  • Government - Risk Article
    ...oalition. In this way absolute power transmogrifed into government for the people. The king gradually ceded power to his majesty’s government, to the point
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  • This time it’s different
    ...n had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, one girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth People will be disappointed. People ''will lose money'', in unpredictable and predictable ways. The universe w
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  • Private practice lawyer
    {{a|people|
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  • 2011 ISDA Equity Derivatives Definitions
    ...experience. In that time the planet has added another nine hundred million people, but not one of them, as far as we know, is using the 2011 ISDA Equity Deri
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  • Eight jet engines
    ...Top Trumps'' they ''removed'' the “engine count” criteria altogether. Some people just don’t like to be beat, I guess.
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  • The Ultimate Purpose
    ...ntegrity, as if they were our own”, nor to “serve the world by making food people love”, nor to “transform lives through learning and growth,” but ''to
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  • Eats, Roots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation
    ...e got very worked up after 9/11 not because of Osama bin-Laden but because people on the radio kept saying “enormity” when they meant “magnitude”, an
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  • Automation eliminates value but not risk
    ...accordingly, misprice that asset, and you may be disappointed in how much people will be prepared to pay for it.
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  • Headings
    ...if we grant, for a moment, that the heading is the part of the clause most people are likely to read?
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  • Leverage
    ...’t mean “borrowing” (any more than it means “use” or “fill out”), although people frequently misuse it that way. As a result, it is a metaphor that doesn’t
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  • No balloons
    ...egaphones. The gratuitous playing of cricket. Madrigal groups. Flash mobs. People carelessly comporting boomerangs or stink-bombs.
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  • Past, present and future
    ...nows, there is much that is absurd about our modern corporate life and the people who populate the landscape of the financial markets which asks for satire, ...ssion between peers. The JC is no tablet from Mount Sinai. It is meant for people who are engaged in specialist negotiation and advisory capacities, who alre
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  • Performative
    ...ity. It isn’t like they are about to give out their clients’ money to poor people, or even stop cooking up elaborate tax shelters to further increase global
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  • OneNDA
    ...ak of public spiritedness can change that, and that was OneNDA: interested people came from far and wide to help; everyone<ref>Everyone except the [[doyen of The more people use it, the more [[Perfection is the enemy of good enough|“good enough”
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  • Litigation lawyer
    {{A|people|{{image|Tin hat|jpg|Do we need a [[process agent]], sir?}}}}{{d|{{PAGENAME}
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  • Playbook
    And, at a cost: following this byzantine process to gather this data occupies people and takes time: ''all'' negotiations take longer, and none of these gears, Both scenarios are likely; often at once: if, as tends to be the case, people in your ''own'' organisation don’t understand your documents, it is a bit
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  • Second-order derivative
    [[Operations]] people deal with ''actual'' risks; [[legal eagle]]s and fellow [[Controllers|contr
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  • Call bullshit
    ...hem. Build your own systems to dampen your own vulnerability, and those of people you care about.
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  • The Peter Principle: Why Things Always Go Wrong
    ...thor|Raymond Hull}}{{quote|“I don’t know whether the world is run by smart people who are putting it on, or imbeciles who really mean it.”}}
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  • Empowerment
    “Send people authorised to make a decision” is a management truism that seems well out
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  • Reverse inquiry
    ...’s all about one’s [[regulatory perimeter]] — a topic which will bore many people to tears, but provides a luxuriant lifestyle to the kind of attorney (aka a
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  • Internal audit
    {{a|people|{{image|Wakeup|jpg|''Simulacra and Simulation'', yesterday.}}}}[[Internal a
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  • No event of default or potential event of default
    ...[[Children of the Forest]]. They were a species of pre-derivative, banking people. Is it possible they had in mind the sort of [[restrictive covenant]]s a ba
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  • London Inter Bank Offered Rate
    ..., there was no real method to their calculation. This appeared to surprise people, during the [[global financial crisis]].
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  • West Midland Baptist (Trust) Assn v Birmingham
    ...o such legislative fickleness: it is unchanging, for all times and for all people.
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  • Bayesian prior
    ...being ''right'' for a 1/3 risk of being wrong. This proposal outrages some people, at first. Apparently, even statisticians. But it is true. When you apply it to unbounded complex systems involving, well, people, it works less well.
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  • Tedium
    ...R GOD’S SAKE. LEARN THE BASIC RUDIMENTS OF HOW TO ADDRESS A LARGE GROUP OF PEOPLE.
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  • Technological unemployment
    ...mouths around the Formica table passably filled with baked beans. The only people around to hear our plaintive discursions about the ills of the modern world ...d all important sports. Even downhill skiing.<ref>True story: the mountain people of Europe had long since invented [[skiing]] as an essential means of conve
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  • Pace layering
    ...re are commonalities in outlook, values and way of life between the Alpine people of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France and Italy that are not shared by o
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  • United Kingdom
    ...only river, not sea water. Unclear whether brackishness changes anything. People from Essex probably think it does.
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  • Ouija politics
    ...of being a generalised disposition attributable to a generalised class of people. These often ''are'' political dispositions, but need not be: “born-again
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  • Bad apple
    ...our formal systems who ''do'' spot the bad apples, and who call them out. People like journalist [[Enron Corporation|Bethany MacLean]], [[Bernie Madoff|Erin As soon as they said their piece these people became, before the fact, bad apples. Not ''bad'' bad apples,<ref>Though Dan
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  • Lindy effect
    ...bil attacks, rug-pulls, malicious javascript — I could go on, but the good people at https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ have it covered in real-time.
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  • Conspicuous
    *The eminently shoutable-at, and oft-shouted at, people of [[New Hampshire]]
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  • OODA loop
    ...ner-take-all showdown, but rather the [[infinite game]] of keeping as many people happy for as long and often as possible.
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  • What the eye don’t see the chef gets away with
    ...nst it with all {{sex|her}} might if given the opportunity.<ref>Curiously, people like this seem more bothered that you may share their information with your
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  • Plausible deniability
    ...ne in a culture relentlessly focused on building machines and then blaming people for their unwanted outcomes, rather than practically ''managing'' outcomes
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  • Overblown
    ...which inevitably inform those who shout loudest. “If it bleeds it leads” — people don’t buy newspapers to read good news, so in a competitive market it is
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  • The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next
    ...own material — there are more minutiae on particle physics here than most people will care for in a bedtime read — Lee Smolin’s major points are clearly
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  • Individual - Risk Article
    ::::::(iv) Behaviour which is characteristic of most people in the organisation (homogeneity) <br>
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  • American bacon drafting
    The thing about spinach is that most right-thinking people ''want'' spinach to disappear. The smaller spinach becomes before before yo
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  • The Atlantis Variation
    :''I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.'' The story’s was deeply unpopular with the few people who were even aware of it, let alone bothered to read it. This had somethin
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  • Confidentiality agreement
    ...ertile I am! I can insist on this transparently idiotic legal contract and people still sign it! It is absurd along every conceivable dimension, yet, here I
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  • Client money
    **''Second'': there needs to be one class of special people who ''are'' allowed to look after your money by keeping it for themselves b
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  • Quotes
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  • Doubt
    ...eploy [[playbook]]s and [[runbook]]s, your machines run on autopilot, your people are scarce and your contract is little more than a [[service level agreemen ...assured annuity from computerisation. Just ask Eastman Kodak, Sears or the people who made aerogrammes. Ask the Parisienne artisan weavers put out of work b
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  • Downgrading
    ...iation]]'': ''We must do this cheaper.'' The cry went out. “Percy! Find me people cheaper units to negotiate these contracts!”
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  • Loyalty discount
    ...mage|Loyalty Discount|png|}}}}{{dpn|/ˈlɔɪəlti ˈdɪskaʊnt/ |n|}}{{Quote|“Our people are our most valuable asset.”
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  • Credit value adjustment
    ...ates. While there are pros and cons to including [[DVA]] in earnings, most people see it as accounting gimmickry that doesn’t reflect any true economic val
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  • Labour theory of value
    ...g intellectual property. It is not not an exhaustible resource. What other people do with your IP can benefit everyone.</ref> Price becomes an interesting fa
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  • Correlation
    ...y converted: all of Alma Cogan is dead, but only some of the class of dead people are Alma Cogan.”
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  • Onboarding
    ...ciency — ~''cough''~ [[outsourcing]] — then you are getting it wrong. Most people are getting it wrong.
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  • Client communication
    ...ness makes a difference. If you are a [[retail bank]], mailing six million people about a change to their current account terms, then ''absolutely'' you want ...tell a million dollar client, it is worth doing in person. Have your sales people [[Talk, don’t email|call]]. This is called [[relationship management]].
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  • General counsel
    {{a|people|{{image|General Counsel|jpg|“Joey, do you like movies with gladiators?”
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  • Interest rate swap mis-selling scandal
    ...step or anything — but they are probably related. If interest rated go up, people generally save more, spend less and so business might drop off a bit. But a Interest rate swaps are easier to manage. They are managed by different people in the bank.
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  • Risk Anatomy
    ...rocess is still too complex to be automated, and is instead carried out by people with even less comprehension of the details, even less incentive to get thi ...:(a) For reasons given above, process reengineering will be carried out by people who<br>
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  • Great delamination
    ...and cultural disasters we are encountering at the moment are the result of people confusing the online and the [[Offworld]]: specifically mistaking the massi
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  • Litigationey
    ...depths of a sweaty tropical swamp and prone to cause hallucinations among people not ready for them.
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  • Organisational model
    ...times. Avoid truncated timelines and arbitrary review periods which force people in to suboptimal behaviour (to leave well alone). Be aware of convenient at
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  • US Person
    ...}From the {{isia}} file, [[US person]] means different things to different people. Even different kinds of [[US Attorney]]. Even the ''same'' [[U.S. Attorney
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  • Hindsight
    ...to elbow his way into what was meant to be a private meeting of important people, will now not stop talking}} On a freezing night December 1808, about 1,500 people attended an ''akademie'' concert at the ''Theater an der Wien'' in suburban
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  • Non-fungible token
    .... This, we sense is not so much because blockchain is ''clever'', but that people who buy non-fungible tokens are ''stupid'', or at any rate (as we shall see
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  • Luxembourg law pledge
    ...manesque, burlesque system of law from a place thronging with dentists and people wearing pork pie hats. You can try arguing “How on earth should I know? I
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