Category: Creativity

Reflecting on the “Flavor of the Month” at the High Reliability interest group on LinkedIn

seems to me that FOTM get their sharp edges rubbed off in practice (or subjected to pressure-thru-use at the industrial level) until what remains, if anything is a gem or simply the speck of sand that became the pearl. Every Aesop’s fable or Canterbury tale or Lao Tzu aphorism is rendering of an essential truth of […]

A belief mapping exercise concerning intraday trading

Stream-of-consciousness belief-mapping exercise on initial stops, moving to no lose, and intraday trade strategies  Small fast losses are an expected result in my intraday trading because I am specifically looking for reversals that explode, with tight stops.   Where I buy them, if they don’t reverse and pop, then normal behavior is to continue the selling […]

The effect of learning preference on stress management in peak performance moments

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/09/the-tight-collar-the-new-science-of-choking/ interesting use of the auditory channel to improve performance when under stress i do the same thing with the use of drum solos to help me concentrate when trading at key moments in the trading day  classic chokes — appear to rise from the process known colloquially as “thinking too much” or “paralysis through […]

Reflections on risk management in organizations

Book review notes from “Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: Creating the risk intelligent enterprise” by Frederick Funston and Steven Wagner. Funston, F., & Wagner, S.  (2010). Surviving and thriving in uncertainty: creating the risk intelligent enterprise. Jphn Wiley & Sons, Hoboken, NJ. I was led to this book during our environmental scanning for higher education. […]

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