Monkey Business by John Rolfe & Peter Troob

Author:John Rolfe & Peter Troob [ROLFE, JOHN]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780759523203
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-10-30T16:00:00+00:00

Executive Summary

The senior vice president I was working for loved graphs and charts. He had already mastered the art of written bullshit in the pitch books and was pursuing a loftier goal of impressing companies with color graphs and charts. It was truly amazing.

I got the marked-up document back around 6:00 P.M. and the word processing marathon began again. I put the changes through word processing and when I was done the vice president wanted to see the finished product to make sure that it was OK to send to the senior vice president. This checking and double checking is a staple of investment banking. I then faxed the document to the senior vice president at his house. He made all these changes to the other changes and faxed them back to me. I sent it through word processing and proofed it. It inevitably wasn’t right, so I had to send it through word processing again. Then the vice president wanted it faxed back to his apartment, and he made even more changes. By this time it was midnight and the ridiculousness seemed like it would never end.

The next day the managing director looked at the executive summary and changed it again. His edits looked like this:

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