Are You Destined to Deal?

Monkeys, we all know not everyone can make it to the top. Deals are tough, that´s why they need us - the hopeful elite. That being said, how much of that below talk by Jim Donovan (MD @ Goldman) is true? And are your MDs as polished and snappy as he is?

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that guy is so fucking monotonously boring you just want to throw a disgusting sex joke at him to see how he reacts and get blacklisted from the entire finance industry on each side of the Atlantic ocean

 
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Really? Isn´t his behaviour, like, the ideal of what you should aspire to, professionally? Like, stern, controlled body language, precise words, carefully placed emotional remarks, the like?

 

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