Review: Négocier avec succès : Préparer, piloter et réussir ses négociations

Négocier avec succès : Préparer, piloter et réussir ses négociations by Maurice Hamon
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Cette livre m’a été recommandée pour un ami et il fut une très agréable surprise. Il aborde la thématique de la négociation seulement en 167 pages y m’a enseigné 3/4 concepts pratique y méthodes de facile utilisation pendant tout le procès de négociation.

De touts les concepts présentée je devrais souligner pour su applicabilité et pertinence los suivants:
- La grille de analyse stratégique où en un simple graph nous pouvons définie y délimiter le contexte de une négociation. Néanmoins, je croix que il serait mais visuelle si la dimension Attitudes a été réfléchi en cette grille de la façon inverse (i.e. Combatif, Diplomate, Conciliant), donc le area de négociation augmenterait dans une négociation Conciliant et Convergent, cela me semble plus adapté a la réalité et a los concepts de la géométrie;
- La grille de analyses per se où se identifie pour chacun Objectif las Position Affichée Initiales, les Point de Rupture et son Utilités (la dernière notion en effet trés important) et les graphs que quelqu’un peut dessiner,

Pour moi la principale difficulté a été le français, c'est un idiome que je ne maitrise pas, donc un obstacle tout cette exercice.


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Review: 1984

1984 by George Orwell
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Great inspiration, foresight and the creation of this parallel world so close to us nowadays, as it was to George back at the late 40's (Nazism and Communism), it's brilliant!

Astounding critic to totalitarian regimes, societies and also way-of-thinking (depending on the level you want to go and your circumstances).

With such an extraordinary eco-system it is somewhat easy to think that the story-line does not match such masterful stage setting.

Strongly recommend its reading and never forget who controls the present, also controls the past!

So true.


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Review: The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money

The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

From an economic standpoint it was a book that disclosed several new ideas and concepts that challenged the accepted body of knowledge (classical perspective) related with unemployment, interest and money. Made me think about the classical point-of-view on these subjects and what you still learn in economy classes (as an university freshman) and has enriched the discussion on subjects at hand. Gave a multidimensional perspectives to problems that were previously considered in a simplistic way. It also presents the basics for behavioral economics relevance on the daily economic decisions, a topic so trendy these days

The problem is that most policy makers when defining policies in these areas stay with the 101 classical perspective and do not take a more holistic approach, whereby a multi-factor variables and potential impact should be considered.

Do not advise it for someone that does not have the basic/medium economic knowledge, his writing is not the most exciting one, the structure of the text, within the chapters, does not help, thus i must confess that i struggled to finish it (having stopped and restarted its reading several times did not help neither). Will let this book rest for a couple of months and eventually will come back to it to see if i can take advantage of its insights (that are undeniable) in a better way.

Do not recommend this Kindly version, several typos and also a missing important chart.

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Review: CFA Program Curriculum 2017 Level II, Volumes 1 - 6

CFA Program Curriculum 2017 Level II, Volumes 1 - 6 by CFA Institute
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Excellent curriculum books on the subjects/topics under study

Ethical & Professional Standards,
Quantitative Methods
Economics
Financial Reporting and Analysis
Corporate Finance
Equity
Fixed Income Derivatives
Alternative Investments
Portfolio Management

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Review: The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition

The Essentials of Risk Management, Second Edition by Michel Crouhy
My rating: 0 of 5 stars

Risk Management - Slightly more than the essentials

Good starting point to risk management. Although it can be read by an interested reader, you need to have advanced financial knowledge to fully grasp all its content, examples and situations presented.

The book is naturally skewed to the financial industry, as this sector is spearheading such endeavors, nonetheless all the knowledge and takeaways can be adapted for non-financial institutions.

The book sets the building blocks of Risk Management (and sometimes goes well beyond that). As an improvement suggestion, there should be more practical examples and the cases presented could have been more dissected from an analytical perspective to help the reader to consolidate the presented concepts and theory.



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Do have to dust this one off...4 years afterwards have to think of something else. CFA III exam next year and then something else from academia,,,


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Review: The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance

The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
My rating: 1 of 5 stars

One book i could have avoided...nothing new, couple of insights nothing more.

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