Warren Buffett's Management Secrets: Proven Tools for Personal and Business Success - Softcover

Buffett, Mary; Clark, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849833230 ISBN 13: 9781849833233

Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK, 2012

Synopsis

The book is divided into several sections covering Warren Buffett's personal business management:

. Managing one's life - focuses on Buffett's insistence on a good education, picking one's heroes early in life, and staying away from things that damage you personally. The authors also discuss Buffett's belief that challenges make life interesting.

. Managing One's Career - Buffett believes that you should work at something that you are passionate about. Do what you like and you will find a way to make money. Do what you hate and you will be miserable even if you are rich.

. Managing Employees - place honesty on the same level as intelligence as a managerial attribute. How to keep managers inspired and working hard.

. Managing the Business - Buffett has learned that companies that have a durable competitive advantage over their competitors consistently earn more money year after year and are the easiest to manage.

. Managing of Personal Money - discover the simple rules that Buffett uses for buying other businesses and how he has incorporated them into his own personal investment style.

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Review

"This amazing book captures in vivid detail Warren Buffett's most important management secrets, allowing the reader to take action with their new knowledge. Mary Buffett and David Clark have again shown their ability to reveal Warren's thought processes better than any other authors." -- John P. Reese, CEO, Validea Capital Management, and author of The Guru Investor

"Among the many striking management lessons in this book from one of the world's most successful managers is Warren Buffett's focus on human passion: When you hire people who love what they do, they make you look like a genius." -- Stephen Denning, author of The Leader's Guide to Storytelling and The Secret Language of Leadership

About the Author

Mary Buffett is an international bestselling author and speaker on the investment methods of Warren Buffett. She gained her unique insight while married to Warren's son Peter for twelve years.

David Clark holds degrees in both finance and law, and in the late seventies was the founding member of the original Buffettologists - a small group of early Berkshire shareholders who studied the investment methods of Warren Buffett. He is now the Managing Director of a private partnership that invests primarily in arbitrage situations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1849833230
• ISBN 13: 9781849833233
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 176