The psychogeography of investment banking
I will ignore for a moment the fact that Epicurian Dealmaker does not make very accurate use of the term `psychogeography' (see Mind Invaders for a reasonable if amusingly partial introduction), and answer his question. First he quotes Tolstoy, the important part being
A Russian is self-assured just because he knows nothing and does not want to know anything, since he does not believe that anything can be known.The question is then
Naturally, I exclude the Russians from my analysis, because I am completely unaware of anyone currently operating in the financial sector who will admit to knowing nothing, much less take pride in it.My thoughts are that many of the MDs I have ever met in M&A fit Tolstoy's description admirably.
Your thoughts?
Labels: Organisational Culture
posted by David Murphy at 06:56
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Well. As both author of the post and an MD in M&A, I suppose all I can do is channel Sergeant Schultz:
"I see nussing – NUSSING!"
Sorry, E.D., I have to confess that I did actually know that when I wrote the post. But I did not mean it badly, but rather as an homage: you are definitely in the few rather than the many. Multi sunt vocati, pauci vero electi.
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