The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People
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ISBN: 185788308X / Publisher: UNKNO, December 2002
This book stands apart with its fresh look into how Buffet has become the richest man in America.
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Much more than a successful stock picker, O'Loughlin traces Buffett's career transitions from stockbroker to 'cigar butt investor' to a brilliant capital manager and corporate leader. Packed with practical and powerful lessons overlooked by others who have studied this enigmatic personality, The Real Warren Buffett explains in full Buffett's special principles for managing Berkshire Hathaway: how he avoids "the institutional imperative" (to use his own phrase); how he leads without a "strategic plan" and prevents prior commitments from becoming blindfolds; and how he gets his extraordinarily decentralized management style to work - in stark contrast to the hands-on, centralized approach of Jack Welch.
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