CHAPTER 1
What They Did Not Teach You in Business School
Much of what Financial Professionals (FPs) experience in real life is not taught in business schools. Many FPs are codependent people, with all sorts of psychosocial and self-esteem imbalances, defined often by their obsessions about how much they make, how much they manage, and how much they aspire to own or consume. For many, it is all about exuberance, consumption, increase, excess, and aspiring to the status quo—irrational goals that spurred their decision to pursue an MBA, which often lead them to temptations that inspire a downward spiraling of feelings of emptiness, and ultimately, fiduciary irresponsibility.
Think for a moment how the public in our Wall Street culture perceives ...
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