Product Description

Warren Buffet has again emerged as the defining sage and darling of Wall Street. James O'Loughlin's The Real Warren Buffet: Managing Capital, Leading People, a fascinating synthesis of biographical, business and psychological analysis, explores the myths that surround the man from Omaha and brings new insights into his remarkable success as a manager, an allocator of capital, and a role model for financial managers, investors, and business executives around the world. Take a look inside the mind of the man himself as The Real Warren Buffet unveils the secret of how he has lead Berkshire Hathaway to such staggering successes. By zeroing in on his original management style and leadership approach, The Real Warren Buffet stands apart with its powerful and practical lessons, and its fresh look into how Buffet has become the second richest man in America.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #489814 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-16
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 1.01" h x 6.30" w x 9.02" l, 1.01 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 275 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Investors around the globe worship Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," and British businessman O'Loughlin is no different. Buffett, after all, jostles with Bill Gates for the title of richest man in America and has built Berkshire Hathaway from a small textile concern into a multi-billion-dollar corporate mammoth. So how does he do it? O'Loughlin tackles the question enthusiastically, laying out Buffett's investing strategies, his management techniques and his unconventional wisdom. Much of it is already well known, of course, from Buffett's love of the cash-generating insurance business, to his hands-off managerial style, to his early passion for the ideas of value-investing guru Benjamin Graham. But the book is a useful distillation of everything business buffs know about the inscrutable Buffett. After the dot-com years, during which his plodding investing style went out of favor, it was he who emerged from the bust relatively unscathed. As O'Loughlin fawns, "We may never see the like of Warren E. Buffett again."
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From the Publisher
Many best-selling books have tried to unlock Buffett's secrets by analyzing his genius as an investor. But they missed the real point! THE REAL WARREN BUFFETT is the first book to uncover the truth about how Buffett has delivered his astonishing performance—not by being a stock picker but as a CEO, leading people and managing capital. Zeroing in on his original management style and leadership approach, THE REAL WARREN BUFFETT stands apart with its powerful and practical lessons in corporate strategy, leadership, and the stewardship of publicly owned companies.

From the Inside Flap
A blend of biographical, business and psychological analysis, THE REAL WARREN BUFFETT offers an original study of Warren Buffett's leadership and the art of acting like an owner. In a work of immense scope and range in which every principle is richly illustrated with quotes from Buffett himself, this is a unique, first-of-its-kind look at Warren Buffett: a manager and leader who has made an indelible impression on the corporate world as he has amassed a personal fortune to become the second richest man in America.

Much more than a successful stock picker, O'Loughlin traces Buffett's career transitions from stockbroker to the creator, leader and allocator of capital. Packed with practical and powerful lessons completely 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(in his own words) "the institutional imperative"; how he leads without a "strategy" 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.

For any manager or executive who strives to follow the path Buffett has forged to the high ground in corporate governance, this user’s field book illustrates what it means to be an owner: how to use this ideal as an instrument of leadership and a failsafe approach to acquisitions; how to attract the right people to the organization; and how to devise rules of behavior which drive these principles down through the organization to the operational level. In practical detail, O'Loughlin demonstrates how Buffett's original Circle of Competence model, including the psychology and emotion involved, can be used to improve decision-making about the allocation of capital and the stewardship of publicly-owned companies.