Let’s be honest: there are typically two business attitudes about branding. One, those that are hyper focused on building and keeping a high quality brand, and two, those that don’t see the point of all the hype. At its essence your brand identity is what people believe about you; it embodies the core of your reputation. And yet, this can be a very different perception than what you know to be true about you and the product/service you provide. Here’s why you should care
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A few weeks ago, I put out the call on Twitter that I wanted to write an investment manager agony column. Of course, in the deluge of Mad King tweets that seem govern both foreign and domestic affairs of late, that call went largely unnoticed. I was beginning to agonize over the general lack of agony when I heard a primal scream from the darkness – otherwise known as a Twitter DM
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Everyone loves an underdog. While superheros have their fans, there’s something about a dark horse or a comeback kid that generates support for a hard-won victory
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The financial world is awash in presentation decks—loaded with data, charts, tables, graphs, and an endless series of bullets. Financial folks seem to think that lots of proof points make for strong arguments in favor of whatever they are selling. In the financial industry, many PowerPoints are assembled by analysts or other data-driven professionals, with zeal to ‘prove’ the message with lots of numbers-oriented content. But the reality is something else
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There are numerous factors which can degrade our performance from a psychological perspective. Today I’ll begin with three of them, and offer a few tricks I use as a fund manager to assist in neutralizing sub optimal decision making
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