High Performing Investment Teams: How to Achieve Best Practices of Top Firms

By Jim WareFran SkinnerJim Dethmer, et al.

Book Overview

High Performing Investment Teams

"Although most leaders agree teamwork is important, few businesses effectively build collaborative, synchronized teams. High Performing Investment Teams is an excellent guidepost for any manager striving to create a winning team and develop bench strength for the future."
--John W. Rogers Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Ariel Capital Management, LLC

"Turning individual talent into team performance is the ultimate challenge for an investment organization, but also the key to building a sustainable investment franchise. Focus Consulting has captured the essence of how to leverage your intellectual capital for maximum and enduring success."
--Michelle R. Seitz, CFA, Principal, Head of Investment Management, Executive Committee Member, William Blair & Company, LLC

"Focus Consulting's work on behaviors of top teams is clear, effective, and practical. We recommend it highly for investment firms that are serious about world-class collaboration."
--Terry Toth, President, Northern Trust Global Investments

"Focus Consulting really understands that attracting and motivating talented people makes all the difference for asset managers. Their work is based on years of experience helping investment firms build strong cultures with productive behaviors."
--Scott Powers, Chief Executive Officer, Old Mutual Asset Management

"Focus Consulting understands the people aspect of the investment business. They know the investment business and how to make collaboration work."
--Harin de Silva, PhD, CFA, President, Analytic Investors

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471770787
• ISBN13: 9780471770787
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Highly recommended!!! An Insightful and Practical Guide to Investment Management Culture

This is an excellent book for anyone in a leadership position within the investment management industry. Although it is focused on people in investment management, its insights apply to any organization. Reading it will help you understand how emotions affect decision-making on investment teams and how to manage emotions so that they enhance rather than undermine your results. Although all of the material is very well done, I found the chapter on accountability to be the most useful for my own business as well as in my efforts to teach accountability to my children. Congratulations to Jim Ware and his co-contributors on their fine work.