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1 bank out of the 700-odd in London? YMMV, clearly.
Still, his viewpoint is hands-on. What's your story?
See above. Working for a consulting firm that was involved with this kind of thing.
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#62They have this in America too -- it's called a CEO.
This has been down voted. But there is a grain of truth. I have worked in several american companies and often the directors were tall, white, gray hair, and good looking. In one case the director was like that and he had a guy (brasilian born japanese) who was really sharp and handled all the operations. When they moved to other positions they moved together. Clearly they were a team. One was the PR guy and the other one was the one making sure everything ran smoothly.
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#632040: "Rent a Chinese Guy"
No chance. Chinese people are not exotic enough :( , we are as common as Chinese restaurants.
Well, then again, Chinese girls are (IMHO) a lot more pretty than Western girls.
You also know Chinese characters (which is a massive accomplishment in my book).
The current stereotype is also that Asian people are good at math. So it is not all that bad ;)
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#64I'm reminded of the Republican Party's recent chairman Michael Steele. One of the microscopically few black men, percentage-wise, in a party of almost entirely white people, and he suddenly becomes Chairman, and the timing happened to be just before or just after (I forget which) the election of Obama, a black man, to the Presidency. Coincidence? I think not.
Maybe, but you would be surprised how many conservative black people there are.
One of the biggest is Thomas Sowell (I used to read his stuff without knowing that he was black).
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#65They have this in America too -- it's called a CEO.
This has been down voted. But there is a grain of truth. I have worked in several american companies and often the directors were tall, white, gray hair, and good looking. In one case the director was like that and he had a guy (brasilian born japanese) who was really sharp and handled all the operations. When they moved to other positions they moved together. Clearly they were a team. One was the PR guy and the othe…
Doesn't that sound like a perfect pair for startup founders?
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#66I'm reminded of the Republican Party's recent chairman Michael Steele. One of the microscopically few black men, percentage-wise, in a party of almost entirely white people, and he suddenly becomes Chairman, and the timing happened to be just before or just after (I forget which) the election of Obama, a black man, to the Presidency. Coincidence? I think not.
Which is worse? A party with few minorities but many at the top, or a party with lots of minorities and relatively few at the top?
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why is it that everytime China is mentioned, some Indians are going to jump in and say how Indians are better in such and such way? Do Indians just envy?
Yes. Educated Indians look at China and wonder what the hell is going on. Indians have similar corruption and population problems, but a much more savvy segment of English-speaking, technologically brilliant, Western educated elites, for generations even. And yet, India gets fill-in-the-blanks Java outsourcing contracts while China makes the frigging iPhone. It drives Indian people INSANE. Source: I'm one-half Indian…
One big advantage that China has over India is reliable physical infrastructure (e.g., power, roads, ports). In China when you turn the lights on, they stay on. In India, not so much, unless you're in a private industrial park with its own power source. Although the flip side is that the Chinese have been able to develop their infrastructure at a much faster pace because, unlike India which is democratic, their citizens have much less say about large-scale developments which impact them (e.g., Three Gorges dam).
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. Educated Indians look at China and wonder what the hell is going on. Indians have similar corruption and population problems, but a much more savvy segment of English-speaking, technologically brilliant, Western educated elites, for generations even. And yet, India gets fill-in-the-blanks Java outsourcing contracts while China makes the frigging iPhone. It drives Indian people INSANE. Source: I'm one-half Indian…
One big advantage that China has over India is reliable physical infrastructure (e.g., power, roads, ports). In China when you turn the lights on, they stay on. In India, not so much, unless you're in a private industrial park with its own power source. Although the flip side is that the Chinese have been able to develop their infrastructure at a much faster pace because, unlike India which is democratic, their citiz…
Watch the movie Outsourced: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0425326/
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#69I'm reminded of the Republican Party's recent chairman Michael Steele. One of the microscopically few black men, percentage-wise, in a party of almost entirely white people, and he suddenly becomes Chairman, and the timing happened to be just before or just after (I forget which) the election of Obama, a black man, to the Presidency. Coincidence? I think not.
Which is worse? A party with few minorities but many at the top, or a party with lots of minorities and relatively few at the top?
Where I live (in America), the party with lots of minorities is the Democratic party.
I'm pretty sure the functional head of the Democratic party is black. If something happens to him, the second and fourth people in line to replace him are women. Oh, and there's another black guy at number seven. And three asian guys in the list. And a half-Lebanese guy. And a few more women. And a couple Latinos. Huh. The Democrats seem to have a fair number of women and minorities at the top...
What country and party were you talking about?
P.S. At least one of the asian guys is a huge nerd, which is another under-represented minority, IMO.
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In other shocking news, bankers don't do their own PowerPoint slides either... There are people employed full time to do just that. You mean associates and analysts? They at least fall under the category of "junior banker" and are on the right track to become deal closing bankers someday. Plus, the senior bankers make revision requests, so the junior bankers are like a high level programming language turning the comm…
Sure an analyst might slot the numbers in, maybe tweak the text. But what makes it a slick presentation is that the media assets, the layout, the overall structure, are done by a professional graphic designer who doesn't know a thing about banking per se, but knows all about creating compelling presentations. When I worked in consulting, another bit of the company did stuff like this. "Below the line" work it was cal…
Hardly different to a company website, brochure, etc - just another medium. Not quite an exposé.