The Convener
The room, the network and the deal, brings the right people together.
Brené Brown reads as The Convener because she has used research as a rallying point, building a global movement around ideas most institutions were too guarded to name. By translating shame, vulnerability, and belonging into a shared language, she has aligned academics, executives, and everyday people around common purpose. Brown does more than influence individuals.
“I was born in Chicago. During the reign of Herbert Hoover, President 31. So I've seen 16 presidents. I moved out to California with my parents during World War II and basically grew up in California, went through junior high school and high school out here, and then went to UC Berkeley and UCLA.”
“Which has a lot of these things embedded in it. One of my favorites is it has a strange name. Of fundamental attribution error. I didn't like anyway. I said, Charlie, why are you calling a fundamental attribution error? Well, Charlie actually just picked it up from sociology and psychology. That's what they call it.”
“Merge the accounts into the hedge fund and started this hedge fund or private limited partnership. That ran for about 20 years and used ideas that I kept generating, mathematical finance ideas to keep staying ahead of other investors and making excess returns. In 20 years, we only had three down months out of all those months.”
“Because everybody as a group is like the index. You subtract the index part out and the rest is like the index too. So the people who aren't buying the index but are like the index as a group are busy paying all these costs. Taxes, investment advisors and so forth. So on average that whole group does worse.”
The Diary of a CEO: “Brené Brown: We're In A Spiritual Crisis! The Hidden Epidemic No One Wants To Admit!”
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