BLOG
(1). A term used when trying to deflect a client’s request for your opinion on the future of the economy or, even worse, his investment performance.
“Look, Brenda, I don’t want to give you some kind of crystal ball analysis about what’s going to happen two, three years from now. What I can tell you is that your overall portfolio could’ve done a lot worse considering all the Facebook stock we bought!”
(1). The process of creating slides for a deck with thoughtful insights, observations and recommendations, only to be passed over at the last minute in the meeting (which you put a suit on for) in favor of more important and relevant dependencies.
“Well, Dave got neuman’d again.”
Props to the department managers at Prime Visibility, and to anyone else who has ever cut Dave off in a presentation.
(1). Idiotic expression used to describe a sales call where an account exec is accompanied by his/her manager or other “expert”.
“So, Kyle brought a guy from the fixed income team with him this morning to talk about munis. I guess he thought he needed to have a four-legged call to land the account.”
Props to Mike J. for the submission.
