(1). How fancy, snooty business men concluded meetings in England in the mid 1800’s.
(2). How fancy, snooty bankers & Wall Street folk currently conclude meetings.
“Old business?! No? On to new business then..”
New Business
RANDOM LINGO
Go Behind The Website
(1). To try to find out what a company’s really all about. Turns out, they do way less than they say they do … and cost way more.
“Look, Tom, this is all great stuff, but we really need to go behind the website here to find out what we’d really be paying for. Sounds like a lot of ‘will do’s’ but not a lot of ‘can do’s’ to me.”
Verbal Dexterity Coach
(1). Some senior sales guy that’s assigned to teach the new hires how to get little old ladies to unwittingly buy their crappy reverse mortgages.
“So, I was talking to my verbal dexterity coach today and he told me I need to beef up my emotional intelligence before they’ll let me start prospecting again. I don’t get it … what’s wrong with handing out business cards at a funeral home?!”