{"id":25938,"date":"2013-04-08T13:21:14","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T17:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/?p=25938"},"modified":"2023-08-01T21:35:09","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T01:35:09","slug":"go-for-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smbtraining.com\/blog\/go-for-growth","title":{"rendered":"Go for Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"

In full disclosure this blog post idea comes from listening to my wife and what she has to say about her reading. I recommend doing more of that \ud83d\ude42 .<\/p>\n

In her highly publicized book Lean In<\/a>\u00a0(<\/em>gr8 title) <\/em>and\u00a0<\/em>in a recent interview with Fortune<\/em>, Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, relives her move from Treasury to Google and then to Facebook and discusses the puzzlement and the mocking that resulted from making these choices. For example, friends snickered as to why she would leave the government for \u201cjunior\u201d positions over others that were offered to her. She counseled that people are \u201ctoo worried about upward trajectory and not worried enough about growth\u201d and that the best thing to do when looking for a great job is to \u201cgo for growth\u201d because \u201cgrowth moves everyone up. If it\u2019s growing, it works.\u201d<\/p>\n

The best example of this is her real-life experience when deciding whether to take a job at this little upstart called Google. Here’s the advice that Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave her in 2001 when she told him that she wasn’t sure if she should accept the offer to be the “Business Unit General Manager”:<\/p>\n

When companies grow quickly, there are more things to do than there are people to do them. When companies grow more slowly or stop growing, there is less to do and too many people to be doing them. Politics and stagnation set in, and everyone falters. He told me, \u201cIf you\u2019re offered a seat on a rocket ship, you don\u2019t ask what seat. You just get on.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For the discretionary trader areas of growth will be:<\/p>\n

1)\u00a0learning how to develop a methodology to archive your best setups<\/a> (see\u00a0The PlayBook<\/em><\/a>)<\/p>\n

2) bionic trading<\/p>\n

3) developing auto strategies<\/p>\n

4) learning how to express your best setups in other products<\/p>\n

5) trading other markets<\/p>\n

We will continue to talk more about these areas of growth in the coming weeks\/months.<\/p>\n

You can be better tomorrow then you are today.<\/p>\n

Mike Bellafiore<\/p>\n

The PlayBook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

One Good Trade<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

no relevant positions<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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