How to Perform Under Pressure

Read How to Perform under Pressure (The Science of Doing Your Best When It Matters Most) by Hendrie Weisinger and J P Pawliw-Fry.  The authors are business coaches and Olympic athletic coaches and the book is well referenced with research as well as their experience.

Key points:

1. Visualisation works not by 'I can see myself winning' but by 'I can see myself winning, so what I do I need to do to ensure I make that happen' ie plan ahead and anticipate what will be required.
2. Key factors to succeed in a pressure situation (these can be practised): Confidence, Optimism, Tenacity and Enthusiasm.  Look around - it's surprising how accurately this describes the high performers that I know.

A risk-based approach to enterprise resource planning implementations

Read an article titled A risk-based approach to enterprise resource planning implementations in Financial Management June 2015.  Drew attention to fact that many risks are not IT related but soft skill related - managing expectations, buy in and acceptance.  This link works for me only due to copyright of the article.

8 Ways to manage forex risk

Read an article from Financial Management June 2015, titled 8 Ways to manage forex risk.  Good revision for the treasury and forex work that I did at PLB.  The link here works just for me as the article is copyright.