Playing Dice by René Schützenberger (circa 1910).
Peter Bernstein’s Against the Gods captivating history of risk rekindled and made me look with new eyes the regression to the mean trading approach —where many good methods take their cue.
For more, visit con-tango, my trading blog…
Toilet paper: a delicate product that gets the job done.
© FotografiaBasica
I can’t think of anything more critical for a company than to learn how to provide value for its customers.
Understanding your customers’ needs is at the core of your company’s well-being.
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Feelings show us the direction to follow.
© José Carlos Pires Pereira
If you don’t know where you’re headed, you’re most likely not advancing…
We all need an objective, a magnetic north, or a vision of where we want to go, to help us set the course for our journey in life.
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Shanghai - Pudong Skyline
To know and understand what’s going on is basic to our development as individuals in an ever faster paced changing world.
We must be able to see our opportunities.
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It's difficult to discipline an employee.© Drazen Vukelic
Have you ever needed to discipline an employee who disobeyed your rules, or the company’s?
It’s always a difficult situation, where it’s not enough to know the local area’s labor laws, safety and other regulations.
Discipline is further complicated by the fact that we may never be able to write down all the rules in a company manual, because it’s simply overwhelming to consider all the potential situations.
To add fuel to fire, managers are unaware that they have a cultural bias. They have adopted a set of rules —which are transparent to them— of what they deem appropriate behavior throughout their interaction with others, since early childhood.
Hence, the way to discipline an employee falls into a fuzzy, but sensitive area.
So, what should you do to keep the discipline of your group within a healthy environment?
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Sir Winston Churchill.
Courtesy of Wikipedia.
Have you noticed how easy it is for some guys to influence others? Why are people so willing to give them a red carpet treatment?
Could it be that it’s simply because they have built a solid reputation for themselves?
It’s obvious that a high ground position commands an advantage: trust.
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Man getting into his fours © Murat Giray Kaya
We’ve all had to deliver a major presentation to an important client, or from the podium to a crowd, which wrecked havoc on our nerves.
In this post, we’ll go over a few ideas to help you wing it.
To begin with, would you crawl on your four to ask for acceptance? Of course, not. Then, doesn’t it strike you as odd that somewhere in your mind you have been willing to do so?
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In this Mashable post I found very good tips to develop your blogging.
It’s a good one, that’s why it’s here. I didn’t want you to miss it.
Girl's mismatching socks
Courtesy of littlemismatched.com
Disruptive thinking is what we should be doing at the top of our game, when we’re full of energy and optimism. It’s a unique way to analyze your possibilities. It opens you’re thinking to create new possibilities (products or product lines) —quite fascinating.
Unfortunately, there are many people who are unwittingly immersed in emotional spaces which hold them back. Resentment, resignation, grief, including tradition may be some of these hidden culprits.
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Enthusiastic girl
© Carey Hope
Heidegger, one of the brightest philosophers of all times, and a loathsome fervent Nazi head authority, —which shows us “how reality surpasses fiction”—, reminds us that one of our salient traits as human beings is that we are constantly concerned and live within an unrealized future.
I strongly suggest you follow this link to watch the fascinating series of six BBC videos which depict Heidegger’s life.
If living in the future is one of our emotional spaces, or moods, then we must be totally irrational about it. Fortunately, most of us are genetically endowed with optimism. Normally, we have a great outlook on our opportunities.
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