The Psychology of Money - An Investment Manager\'s Guide to Beating the Market

126 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM hours of sleep. Despite all the successes that I’d experienced per- sonally and heard about fro ...

organization worth its salt will have disagreements and conflict amongst the different asset groups, functional groups, regions, ...

128 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM tured speakers from many top organizations talking on the subject of innovation. The meeting se ...

129 CHAPTER 15 The Creative Investor Taming the Critics I find the pain of little censure, even when it is unfounded, is more ac ...

130 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM fore, before we leap ahead to a discussion of group creativity, it’s important to cover the ind ...

depression, because it tells you that you are not good enough. It can make looking at yourself in a mirror or shopping for clot ...

132 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM trying to destroy us. The critic is reacting to early life experiences and messages from our pa ...

leave the big, bureaucratic firm that he works for and start his own practice. Why doesn’t he? He’s scared. His critic is still ...

134 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM The process for change that the Stones recommend—and it worked for me—is called Voice Dialogue. ...

that somehow “Jim’s” behavior had put everybody in danger. Critics respond to fear. That’s when they attack. That’s also why it ...

136 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM Aware Ego: Is there something that Jim could do to make you feel safer? Critic: Yes, he could g ...

Its objective evaluations of situations help you to behave appropriately and with self-discipline. It helps you to get appropri ...

138 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM A perfect example of this occurred in a consultation with the head of a bond department. We wer ...

139 CHAPTER 16 Creating a Safe Place Criticism should not be querulous and wasting, all knife and rootpuller, but guiding, instr ...

140 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM No. Conflict is part of creativity. So is fear, at times. People will feel frightened as they g ...

“How does this help? I mean, how does doing this negative activ- ity lead to anything positive?” The mercury dropped another two ...

142 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM truths. The emphasis is on honesty and acceptance. Participants are encouraged to make “I” stat ...

Groups that ignore this advice will suffer. I remember a brain- storming meeting for a major life insurance company, in which a ...

144 THE CREATIVE INVESTMENT TEAM safety is the Mankind Project. They conduct experiential weekends for men (there is a sister or ...

to go home, Bruce was still taking the punishment. The drill ser- geants told stories about him, as they continued to up the ant ...