Career Intelligence: Mastering the New Work and Personal Realities

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Here's How Work has Changed.......1999-01-06

Its scary out there and career specialist Dr. Barbara Moses knows it. Millions of people who personally used her bestseller, Career Planning Workbook, are now turning to her latest book, Career Intelligence for assistance in surviving `new workplace realities.' The current mantra, "the old rules no longer apply" is forcing workers and parents to (re)examine their values, jobs, careers and dreams. Moses strives to help the individual take charge and become a `career activist' thereby taking personal responsibility for one's future. With paradigms shifted, the work world reconfigured and along with it people's lives. We now face a condition called `temporariness' where nothing, especially work can be taken for granted. "Jobs," says Moses, "have been replaced by `project work, outsourcing, contract work, and short-term assignments." The career ladder has been replaced by a trellis where people zig zag work, education, leisure and volunteer time. Philosophically, the new way frees us from viewing people as only having value if they contribute directly to the economy. Pragmatically, it causes confusion for those who have to cope with financing their own sick leave, unemployed time and pensions. In Part One of her book Moses goes to great detail to drive home the message that we are all "free agents." Technology has moved us from a production economy to one of information; a system of `knowledge workers and everyone else.' Thanks to downsizing and re-engineering we have lost predictability and psychological security. Moses states "so much of our sense of self is tied to our work and getting work means attaining specialize education. Thus the pressure is on as we must prepare our students to be `independent contractors' due to `credentialism,' as a university degree in now worth what a high school certificate was worth a generation ago. Those with employment all seem to have stress as described in the chapter titled, "Squished, Squashed, Sliced and Diced," where `career malaise' runs rampant. Just when it looks like there is no hope Part Two, "Renewal" presents strategies on coping with "Tempworld." Firstly, one has to comprehend a new vocabulary of terms such as "regular part-timers, occasional part-timers, permanent temporary , temporary permanent, just-in-time workers, contract workers, leased workers, outsourced and disposable workers." As we become "professional gypsies" we can benefit from Dr. Moses' advice on how to cope and find opportunities in the maze. Reading her is akin to having a personal trainer who coaches with encouraging sentiment such as: know yourself, know what you love and be who you are." It's the only way to deal with the organizational chart Moses describes as a giant question mark. Besides offering a dozen rules for career success, Moses concludes her book with a chapter dedicated to parents on "career Proofing your Kids." It is an excellent look at reaffirming that we cannot let the reductionist mentality out there lessen any of our time with our children. The thought of a two-tiered, have/have not world frightens parents. The world they prepared for no longer exist and they are unsure how to guide their children. As Moses notes, love and a desire for community are "enduring human traits" and as we teach and counsel the upcoming generation of entrepreneurs in a world of possibilities we can always refer to Career Intelligence as a standing reference on coping with the unknown. Reviewed by: Heather Emberley, Career Counsellor

perceptive, practical insights into today's workplace.......1998-08-21

This book is certainly a cut above career guidance books that offer tips on how to write resumes or suggest "hot" jobs that you should choose.

Dr Moses writes intelligently about the stresses of managing your career in a world where all the rules have changed. there are useful sections on many aspects of today's workplace - i found the stuff on providing career direction to kids particularly helpful.

overall a wise, illuminating book that i would recommend not just to anyone looking for direction in their career but also managers in organizations who whish to understand the career aspirations of their employees and be able to help them.

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In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect.

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Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work?
Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance?
What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment?
Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions?
Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required?
Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?

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"In Financial Risk Taking, trader and psychologist Mike Elvin explores the complex relationship between human behaviour patterns and the markets, offering the reader a context in which to assess their own strengths and weaknesses as investors. The book offers an apposite and uncomplicated system of skills development in the form of competences and competencies that can be applied anywhere along the continuum from casual investor to full-time day trader. Elvin presents a Comprehensive Model of Trading Competence (the MOT) as well as the concepts of analysis and refutation, the paramouncy principle, and self-sabotaging behaviours such as the Santa Claus syndrome and Bohica effect.

Areas covered include:

Emotions - are they functional or disabling? How do the mechanisms of fear, greed and panic work?
Motivation and perception - how do belief paradigms affect perception and performance?
What perceptual errors influence decisions to the trader's detriment?
Information processing and risk assessment - how does information overload affect Stress How does stress affect investment decisions?
Technological and mathematical anxiety - why do we avoid learning the skills we most need? What levels of ability are required?
Can psychological and biological theories assist in our understanding of investors' performance?

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Trading and Emotional IQ.......2005-08-17

This is the first 'trading' book I've read that explicitly offers advice on suicide. Here is the final sentence of the last chapter, the one on depression and suicide: "...seek out a counselor, to find your way to God as you understand Him, or whatever it is that you need to do to end your pain, loneliness, and hopelessness. If you can manage this, and do something very small every day, I know you will get through your period of loss, and I will feel tremendously grateful for having shared some of your experience with you through this book."

This is not a book on 'how to trade'. Loosely, the book is a psychologist's autobiographical 5 years in the trading pit (ok, in front of a trading screen). The first section covers Dr. Elvin's frustrations with finding a teacher and the second lightly touches on trading techniques. This is all rather flimsy material, but represents a fair picture of the pitfalls facing anyone trying to 'learn' trading by sitting in classes.

The 3rd section on 'perceptual bias' is very good, and obviously takes advantage of Dr. Ervin's 'real job', clinical psychology. There is brief but concise descriptions of the 'primacy error' (we are unduly influenced by experiences immediately prior to a decision), the 'availability error' (we tend to take the easy way out) and the 'Halo effect' (a good trait blinds us to the bad). Other topics include the 'misplaced consistency theory, the 'sunk cost error', 'prospect theory', 'self-deception bias', 'representativeness bias', and 'sampling bias' (law of small numbers). As an answer to this, Dr. Elvin briefly argues against the Neo-Platonic efforts to exclude emotion from decision making, and recommends assessing one's Emotional IQ with a view to improve it. A few well placed emotional disasters pulled from the author's trading experiences illustrate the points nicely.

Concluding that emotional issues are the primary blame for trading disasters, the 4th section covers the delights of Zen meditation and taking on the self-image of a warrior-trader. The book suggests this is the path the author finally chose. We don't end here, though. Instead, Dr. Elvin launches into a fascinating discussion suicide, the suicides of famous traders and gambling addiction, again with personal insights to his own dark moments.

All of these materials are covered in more detail elsewhere, but Dr. Elvin's consistent reference to his own trading experiences provide a relevance missing in more academic work. The summary chapter suggests the author was trying to write a model of trading competence. Using this goal as a measure, the author has failed to deliver. The offered measures of competence seem designed for accountants. The messy comments on assessing one's emotional IQ are hard to package in terms of competence. The juxtaposition of brave 'warrior trader' and 'suicidal trader' illusions speak to the difficulty of the subject. I suspect the author recommends we meditate on these issues.

Get the book, read and apply it - worth the effort.......2005-02-17

I don't normally write reviews, but I think that this is a great book. Serious traders should consider adding this to their library of reference material.

I have a trading library that contains most of the classic trading books, including more than a dozen on trading psychology. The key is to find the "gems" in each one and figure out how to apply them in our own personal style of trading.

This book is unique in three ways:

1. It pulls together some of the "gems" from the classics so the information is more accessible in one place.

2. The author lays down an excellent framework (structure) for being a successful trader - not just today, but a broad set of integrated skills the must be mastered & balanced. This is actually a interrelated set of "competencies" that the author outlines.

3. A "Model of Trading" is identified at a high level, and presented in a strategic and tactical flow chart. Some text supports the flow charts.

There is no "one book" that covers it all, but applying the information in this book would help the individual trader develop his trading career and bring it to a more professional level.

Another view.......2004-11-17

Well, I don't know if "fascinating" is the word I'd choose for this book, though I'm not entirely sure that the word "book" is appropriate to describe it either.

I'm sure Elvin is a very nice person and I applaud him for the journey he undertook to achieve trading competence, assuming that he ever did (achieve trading competence). However, this is not so much a book as a very long -- and I mean VERY long -- research paper. In effect, Elvin provides the glue to hold together not only the views of others but also sometimes lengthy passages from their books. Rather than contribute anything new to the literature, he provides what is called a "review of the literature", and that review is somewhat shallow. For example, the facility with which he assumes the value of certain elements, such as Fibonacci, even though there is no evidence that they have any demonstrable value at all, toots "new trader", giving the book a sort of What I Learned During My Summer Vacation After Being Screwed By A Guru quality.

In a way, it reminds me of those compilations one sees advertised on late-night television: a few minutes of one movement from some symphony, a sampling of an aria from some opera. If this style encourages one to investigate the source material, all to the good. But at $45 ($70 MSRP), it's a bit steep for a sampler.

I suggest, therefore, that dear reader get this book from the library first in order to find out if it's truly what he wants. It may instead provide leads to those books which might actually benefit the reader in the way he had in mind when he sought out the book in the first place.

Commodity, stock and options traders need this book.......2004-09-03

Financial Risk Taking by M. Elvin contains a fascinating blend of practical trading ideas from the trading masters and psychological studies from the academic world. It covers more than the title implies and discusses trading methods, trading as a business, trading standards and trading psychology. Dr. Elvin is himself a trader, clinical psychologist and business person whose illustrations on trading covers his own errors as well as his developing wisdom as a trader. Recommended for traders at any level, from novice to advanced. If you need a first book on trading or a last book on trading, this is it.

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Wrestling with Diversity
Sanford Levinson
Manufacturer: Duke University Press
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“Diversity” has become a mantra within discussions of university admissions policies and many other arenas of American society. In the essays collected here, Sanford Levinson, a leading scholar of constitutional law and American government, wrestles with various notions of diversity. He begins by explaining why he finds the concept to be almost useless as a genuine guide to public policy. Discussing affirmative action in university admissions, including the now famous University of Michigan Law School case, he argues both that there may be good reasons to use preferences—including race and ethnicity—and that these reasons have relatively little to do with any cogently developed theory of diversity. Distinguished by Levinson’s characteristic open-mindedness and willingness to tease out the full implications of various claims, each of these nine essays, written over the past decade, develops a case study focusing on a particular aspect of public life in a richly diverse, and sometimes bitterly divided, society.

Although most discussions of diversity have focused on race and ethnicity, Levinson is particularly interested in religious diversity and its implications. Why, he asks, do arguments for racial and ethnic diversity not also counsel a concern to achieve religious diversity within a student body? He considers the propriety of judges drawing on their religious views in making legal decisions and the kinds of questions Senators should feel free to ask nominees to the federal judiciary who have proclaimed the importance of their religion in structuring their own lives. In exploring the sense in which Sandy Koufax can be said to be a “Jewish baseball player,” he engages in broad reflections on professional identity. He asks whether it is desirable, or even possible, to subordinate merely "personal" aspects of one’s identity—religion, political viewpoints, gender—to the impersonal demands of the professional role. Wrestling with Diversity is a powerful interrogation of the assumptions and contradictions underlying public life in a multicultural world.

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The generation of surface waves by wind and their propagation from a storm area (Det Norske videnskaps-akademi i Oslo. Geofysiske publikasjoner; Geophysica Norvegica)

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Martin Mork
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A Shorter Finnegan's Wake
James (Burgess, Anthony- editor) Joyce
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