Hedge Fund Leadership

Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Chapter 1. Developing Good Leadership.
The Value of Empowerment.
It Begins with You.
Enjoying the Process, Solving the Problems.
Breeding Good Leadership.
Introducing the Flat Organization.
Chapter 2. The Value of a Vision.
Creating the Vision.
Focusing on Your Vision.
Maximizing Your Strengths.
Demonstrating Authenticity through Weakness.
Sharing Your Vision.
Timing is Everything.
Preparing for Resistance.
Implementing Your Vision.
Chapter 3. Assembling Your Team.
Considering Recruitment.
Conducting the Talent Search.
Changing Negative Perceptions
Identifying Individual Strengths
Melting Resistance
Dealing with Departures
Chapter 4. Refining Your Team.
Aligning Behavior.
Performing Evaluations.
Encouraging Commitment.
Motivating in Motion.
Chapter 5. Building Momentum.
A Transformational Phase.
Going for Short-term Victories.
Managing Risk-Taking.
Abandoning Energy-Draining Behavior.
Chapter 6: Sustaining Momentum.
Burnout and Euphoria.
Reassessingand Redefining Goals.
Redesigning Your Team.
No Time to Let Up.
Chapter 7. Transcending Self-Imposed Limits.
The Life Principle.
Transference and Counter-Transference Issues.
Making Yourself Human.
Combating Stress and Panic.
Using Imagery and Visualization.
Chapter 8: Empowering Others.
Monetary Incentives.
A Confrontational Environment.
Measuring Emotional Success.
Leaving a Legacy.
Notes.
Index.

Ari Kiev, MD, is a practicing psychiatrist who has received recognition in the financial community for his insights into the psychology of decision making under stress and for the creation of goal-directed programs to enhance trading performance. He is the author of fifteen books, including Trading to Win: The Psychology of Mastering the Markets, Trading in the Zone: Maximizing Performance with Focus and Discipline, and the bestselling masterpiece A Strategy for Daily Living. He is President of the Social Psychiatry Research Institute in New York, has appeared on CNBC and CNNfn, and has been featured on Forbes.com, cbsmarketwatch.com, in The New York Times, and The New York Post. Dr. Kiev frequently writes for Active Trader magazine and was featured in Stock Market Wizards by Jack Schwager for his significant contributions to some of Wall Street's most successful hedge funds.