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(1). To take expensive and time-consuming exams and classes (see credentializer) in order to add impressive-sounding letters after your name on your resume.
“You’ve got to credentialize that resume, Tom. I mean, look at me. I’ve got my CFP, CLU, CTFA, ChFC, AIAF and Series 7, 63 and 24 licenses. Where did I go to college? Well…that was a long time ago…umm…”
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(1). An exam or class taken in order to get some neat-sounding letters after your name.
“So I’m taking my 5th credentializer next week. They don’t make business cards wide enough for me!”
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(1). To try to do too much at once, usually resulting in total, abject and complete failure.
“I like where you’re going with this, Jim, but let’s not try to boil the ocean on our first pitch. Let’s just focus on phase one of the proposal and see where it goes.”
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(1). When management thinks they are smarter than everyone else, including their regulators.
(2). When management thinks they can simply manage their way out of anything.
“Well, Ken…I think there’s a little institutional arrogance coming out of the executive office on this Reg. W thing. If it were me, I probably wouldn’t have opened the meeting by calling the Fed examiners a bunch of pencil-pushing bureaucrats. But, that’s just me.”
Props to Tim P. for the submission.
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