The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
by William N. Thorndike Jr.
Eight CEOs, Singleton, Murphy, Buffett, Anders and others, who crushed the market by thinking like investors: capital allocation, decentralization, buybacks when cheap. Buffett recommends it; it deserves it.
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Three things you will actually use
- Capital allocation is the job.
- Decentralize operations, centralize capital.
- Be rational, not conventional.
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Read the Henry Singleton chapter.
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Eight rational CEOs.
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