On this episode I discuss leadership with Michael Harris, President at Quest Partners, a New York-based quant fund.
Michael highlights the challenge of determining how much time each to spend thinking about the strategic path of the company versus day-to-day business issues and during our discussion he talks about:
- Intellectual humility and understanding the strength of your ideas, combined with transparent collaboration
- Self-awareness, self-regulation, motivation, empathy and social skills are the building blocks of being a good leader
- The importance of his maternal grandfather and why he was an inspirational leader
- Learning leadership under the guidance of Mark Hawley at Dean Witter and Bob Murray at Morgan Stanley
- Giving back and inspiring the next generation of talent via his university lecture series
- The importance of not losing one's cool in a high stress situation
- How meditation plays a role in maintaining perspective within Quest Partners
I hope you enjoy the episode!
