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Are you probing your wins?
I'm feeling bold this Monday so excuse me for starting the week with a teaser. If you don't have the habit of analysing your portfolio...
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Feb 24, 20251 min read
Earnings season puts your ego to the test
If you are an active investor, research analyst or portfolio manager the earnings season is when your discipline is tested. I used to be...
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Feb 23, 20251 min read
❓Do I offer soft skills in my workshops?😱
😉I offer skills that allow you to make better use of your technical skills. Many decisions and estimates fail despite strong technical...
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Feb 20, 20251 min read
Reaction vs action under uncertainty
🥵"How you behave as an investor during late 2008 and early 2009 will likely have more impact on your returns than everything you did...
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Feb 20, 20251 min read
Uncertainty as a relationship
"Uncertainty is a relationship between an individual and the outside world." I wish I would have come up with this definition. This is a...
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Feb 18, 20251 min read
Evaluations in prediction making
The first step towards making better financial predictions or choices is to do two types of evaluation in such cases. What we do mostly...
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Feb 17, 20251 min read
How you explain your problems determines what solutions you see
There is a lot of ego in Finance. When it comes to decision making, financial professionals are like drivers: they mostly believe...
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Feb 14, 20251 min read
❓Do I offer soft skills in my workshops?😱
😉I offer skills that allow you to make better use of your technical skills. Many decisions and estimates fail despite strong technical...
Raluca
Feb 12, 20251 min read
Bold well-balanced decisions
Whether we like it or not, the best returns come from what seem bold decisions at that time. Yet bold is not enough. The trick is in...
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Feb 11, 20252 min read
Mental toughness demystified
✊"You have to be made for this" ✊"You need be cold blooded" 👂I've heard this many times from people speaking about working in...
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Feb 10, 20251 min read
Do you need to think about uncertainty differently?
You should revise your relationship with uncertainty if you experience any of the below: you lose sleep over decisions you...
Raluca
Feb 10, 20251 min read
Adaptive intelligence vs AI
The uncomfortable truth is that we use too much of our intelligence to look for excuses. Whether we are procrastinating a decision or...
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Feb 6, 20251 min read
❓Is it the right time?
People with valuable knowledge, experience and capabilities find themselves agonizing at times over this question as the burden of...
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Feb 4, 20251 min read
What I omitted when I became a franchise owner
I am a franchise owner On paper at least A good number of years ago I took the snap decision of buying into a franchise It was a small...
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Feb 1, 20251 min read
Success is a lonely road
This thought crossed my mind today as I was contemplating on my impact so far on changing the way financial decisions are made The next...
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Jan 31, 20251 min read
My story - how I came to embrace this mission
It was mid-2016 when a shameful decision nudged me on a new path I was a fresh mum with the same high professional ambitions when my...
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Jan 30, 20252 min read
Decisions are not always choices.
And Instinct is not Intuition. Grasping these two things can completely change the way you approach decision making. These understandings...
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Jan 30, 20252 min read
I had no choice
These must be very painful words for any decision maker. And yet, I am gonna ask you to the uncomfortable question: "Really?" What I saw...
Raluca
Jan 28, 20252 min read
Decision anxiety
Oh, the moments when I felt anxious and trapped by analysis paralysis! I often hear something along these lines when I tell people that I...
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Jan 23, 20252 min read
Change or no change decisions
Between dodging change and chasing it, there exists a wide space for making choices. I could have avoided some poor decisions if I had...
Raluca
Jan 16, 20251 min read
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