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How do I learn how to interact with clients? Like advice for someone in sell side sales? Anyone know any good books or other resources? I found this video and I want to learn more tips like this: http://www.cnbc.com/2015/01/14/master-class-entertaining-wall-street-clients-commentary.html
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maybe its my naiveté talking but i think banking lingo is awesome
Let's table this discussion so we can do a deep dive analysis on the due diligence performed on the work product to identify all low hanging fruit which is most impactful leadership and then circle back/touch base with the project team who has the bandwidth to implement changes which will take the work product to the next level in order to provide the most value-add and move the needle.
Yup, nailed it. You sound just like my boss. 😫
Another one I hated initially but now use to torment others - "drinking from the fire hose"
“Stet"
I don't know about investment banking, but "stet" in editing means to leave an edit alone - revert to undo a proposed edit.
So in your field does it mean to leave something alone?
What’s our North Star on this deliverable?
Do you work for a shaman or something
Let’s sync up on this. Pls send around a dial in
Can we add a little color to this...
Sharpen our pencils
Let’s go after the low hanging fruit
“....from a [insert subject] perspective...”
Literally any time “leverage” is used when it isn’t referring to debt. Example: “I’d like to leverage your PowerPoint skills for this deck”
Can you pdf and send it to me?
“Don’t kill yourself”
Don’t spin your wheels on this
We aren’t trying to boil the ocean
I will revert back to you !
This wasn’t really what I had in mind... I’m jammed with meetings the rest of the day, so can we discuss first-thing tomorrow morning? (a Saturday)
“Let’s not get pregnant with commitments”
Yes, this was actually said
Let’s circle back
Let’s close this loop
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