A review of The Quants, by Scott Patterson. The Quants: How a New Breed of Math Whizzes Conquered Wall Street and Nearly Destroyed It In The Quants, Scott Patterson, a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal who covers technology in the financial markets, explores the most significant development on his beat over the last decade, the rise [...]
Resources & Reviews
Recently I was asked to facilitate a discussion about “scary” conversations. In putting together my outline for the presentation, I gathered my favorite resources and made a few notes. The Coaching Association Executive Director, Barbara Demarest, thought this was some good information for people who serve as coaches — whether that is your profession or [...]
A review of Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition, by Michael J. Mauboussin. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition By Michael J. Mauboussin Harvard Business Press, 2009, 224 pages Economics is an imperial science, and its ambition knows no bounds. But the triumphal march of its neoclassical army through the fields of finance [...]
TCA Executive Coach, Mary Kralj found the following new free resource for our readers. Mary recently attended a conference for I/O Psychologists where IOatWork.com, a publication review site, was announced. The site provides quick, easy-to-read reviews of recent I/O and consulting psych research from more than 20 journals, allowing you to stay up to date [...]
TCA Coach Lynne Alexander recently pointed out an online resource that may be of interest to our blog readers. It is the Positive Psychology Authentic Happiness Center located at the University of Pennsylvania and directed by Dr. Martin Seligman. I had read Dr. Seligman’s book, Learned Optimism at the recommendation of Dr. David P. Campbell in [...]
While perusing Warren Bennis’ On Becoming a Leader this week, I saw a sage quote attributed to Satchel Paige. “It’s not what you don’t know that hurts you; it’s what you know that just ain’t so.” I had the chance to experience a training program called Choice Points: The Paper Room System that offered a [...]