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Resources Are People Too — NeilW

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One aspect of commercial life that has always annoyed me is the habit of some project managers to refer to people as “resources”. It’s a wonderfully dehumanising phrase that lumps human beings, with their thoughts, feelings and aspirations, into the same category as steel ingots and rebar, to be shipped around as required by an unfeeling bureaucracy. That same disconnect is now creeping into opinion pieces as they struggle with the Modern Money reality we live in...New WaylandResources Are People TooNeilW

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One aspect of commercial life that has always annoyed me is the habit of some project managers to refer to people as “resources”. It’s a wonderfully dehumanising phrase that lumps human beings, with their thoughts, feelings and aspirations, into the same category as steel ingots and rebar, to be shipped around as required by an unfeeling bureaucracy. That same disconnect is now creeping into opinion pieces as they struggle with the Modern Money reality we live in...
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Resources Are People Too
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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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