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"We don't need to reinvent the wheel, lets just make sure we have the bandwidth from an operations perspective and hit the ground running. We'll need to leverage our ability to scale and we should be able to knock it out of the park"

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There is a book you should all read called Lloyd: What Happened, by Stanley Bing. It's out of print, but available used on Amazon. Very funny satire of our careers.

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Covfefe

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Block chain

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RPA, AI and Machine Learning

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Disrupt is no longer a 2017 buzzword. That’s so 2016.

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Can the strat houses please go ahead and publish 2018 words too?

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previous winner “experience” is quickly being overtaken by “storytelling” - in the digital world, anyway

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I'll kick off... contextualize. I literally use it in every conversation... more than 20 times a day.

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I go around the office all day long telling people I have no bandwidth

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Fintech and RegTech

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"Align" - align boxes on slides, align with your manager, align with your client, "are we aligned"? Ugh!

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Innovate. Digital. As-a-service. Robotics. Machine intelligence.

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Bifurcate

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Lean In. RPA aka fancy macros from 1999.

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The New

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Robotics - seriously let’s just call it automation

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Art of the possible. Fucking hate that term.

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Haven't heard a single example of 2017. All 2015 and prior

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Fishbowl.

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Mine will have to be “push tolerance” used in the context of testing an idea or strategy in surviving resistance. *puke*

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