Kaleb works for a financial management company that is shifting its focus towards managing clients whose portfolios are valued at over a million dollars. Many clients will be encouraged to seek management from firms that are more focused on smaller portfolios. However, a certain number of clients will be asked to remain with the company despite having investments worth less than a million dollars. Kaleb is on a team to determine which clients would be most beneficial to carry forward and the team has been discussing various clients. Matthew is a junior member of the firm and he is advocating for a selection of clients on the list. Kaleb finds himself distracted, irritated, and dismissive of Matthew's recommendations. But when Min Jung, a senior member of the firm and an associate who enjoys considerable respect in the firm, concurs with Matthew's recommendations, Kaleb finds himself in full agreement with her. In the scenario described above, Kaleb has jumped to conclusions.

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To jump to a conclusion means that Kaleb will have assumed Matthew's conclusions before Matthew has been able to make them. Kaleb has more likely been swayed by the halo effect since he appears to have dismissed Matthew from the start and his opinion of Matthew's recommendations appears to have changed only because of Min Jung's concurrence with them, not because she has made additional arguments.

Kaleb Works for a Financial Management Company That Is Shifting