Posts by Andrew Stotz
Does Competition Create Wins? Role of a Manager in Education (Part 14)
Who wins when teams and team members compete with each other? In this final episode in the Role of a Manager in Education series, David Langford and Andrew Stotz discuss why cooperation beats competition, particularly in schools.
Read MoreA. Stotz All Weather Strategies – January 2024
All strategies outperformed; Developed markets performed the best. Performance review of our strategies in January 2024 – All Weather Inflation Guard lost 0.4%, All Weather Strategy gained 2.3%, All Weather Alpha Focus gained 0.6%. Global outlook that guides our asset allocation.
Read MoreBecome a Better Investor Newsletter – 10 February 2024
China faces deflation. India gets China money. Time to buy Alibaba?. Fidelity adds BTC to portfolios. Time to get real about green energy.
Read MoreThe Unhurried Conversation: Role of a Manager in Education (Part 13)
What are unhurried conversations, and why should managers prioritize them? In this episode, David Langford and host Andrew Stotz talk about the kinds of conversations managers should be having with their team members.
Read MoreBecome a Better Investor Newsletter – 3 February 2024
What if Japan re-rated to 1x PB?. Non-US equity isn’t expensive. We’re due for war. Deficit spending avoids recession. Market wizard Nancy Pelosi does it again.
Read MoreEliminate Arbitrary Numerical Targets: Deming in Schools Case Study (Part 17)
Quotas, arbitrary targets, work standards with numerical goals – these don’t seem to apply to schools. But, as John Dues and host Andrew Stotz discuss, quotas show up a lot in classrooms, causing harm and preventing improvement.
Read MoreMy Worst Investment Ever January 2024
In January 2024, we published 8 new episodes of the My Worst Investment Ever podcast. Listen to all of them here.
Read MoreBecome a Better Investor Newsletter – 27 January 2024
2 x $3trn. Tech at dot-com levels. In the long run, stocks win. Few fund managers expect a hard landing. Fuel shipping costs shoot up.
Read MoreIntegration and the Taguchi Loss Function: Awaken Your Inner Deming (Part 13)
Should we strive to better understand what happens “downstream” to our defect-free work? No matter the setting, if our work meets requirements and we pass it on, are we responsible for how well it integrates into a bigger system? In this episode, Bill Bellows and Andrew Stotz expand on the interaction between variation and systems and why Dr. Deming regarded Genichi Taguchi’s Quality Loss Function as “a better description of the world.”
Read More8 Benefits of Increasing the Profits of Your Business
Isn’t Capitalism Great!? Here are eight key benefits of increasing the profits of your business. And I challenge you to set the goal for 2024 to increase the profits of your business.
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