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Robert Skidelsky

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveStiritz: Poker-Player Odds on Back-of-Envelope LBOs
Operating PrincipleBlank Calendar as Competitive Edge
Cornerstone MoveOne-Page Analysis Then Pounce
Signature MoveMalone: Scale as Virtuous Cycle, Tax as Obsession
Cornerstone MoveAnarchic Decentralization, Dictatorial Capital Control
Risk DoctrineInstitutional Imperative as CEO Kryptonite
Decision FrameworkHurdle Rate as Supreme Filter
Signature MoveSingleton: Phone Booth Tender at All-Time-Low Multiples
Cornerstone MoveSuction Hose Buybacks at Maximum Pessimism
Cornerstone MoveCash Flow as True North, Not Reported Earnings
Signature MoveAnders: Sell Your Favorite Division Without Blinking
Identity & CultureEngineers Over MBAs at the Helm
Competitive AdvantageConcentrated Bets Over Diversified Dribbles
Signature MoveMurphy: Leave Something on the Table Then Lever Up
Capital StrategyTax Counsel Before Every Transaction
Operating PrinciplePer-Share Value Not Longest Train
Signature MoveBuffett: Float Flywheel from Insurance to Empire
Strategic PatternGreedy When Others Are Fearful
Operating PrincipleSelf-Manufactured Belief Compounds Over Time
Implementation TacticOlympian Expectations Escalate or Die
Competitive AdvantageThe Proprietary Segment of One
Implementation TacticThe Reality Distortion Field as Leadership Tool
Strategic ManeuverRide the Pool Vehicle, Then Build Your Own
Mental ModelPositioning Beats Performance Every Time
Strategic ManeuverNarrow the Niche Until You're the Only One
Mental ModelAnti-Fragile Spirit: Setbacks as Discovery Mechanism
Mental ModelOne Breakthrough Achievement, Not a Portfolio
Strategic ManeuverThe Personal Vehicle as Force Multiplier
Mental ModelBe Profitably Different, Not Just Different
Strategic ManeuverGet Transformed on Someone Else's Dime
Strategic PatternBain's Exclusivity-Intimacy Flywheel
Decision FrameworkGap in the Market Plus Market in the Gap
Relationship LeverageMentors by Adoption, Not Permission
Strategic ManeuverDesire Deeply, Wait, Pounce
Identity & CultureSerious Intent as Daily Obsession
Operating PrinciplePersonality Reinvention Through Displacement
Mental ModelIntuition as Articulated Hidden Knowledge
Capital StrategyExpected Value Betting at Long Odds

Primary Evidence

"Further Reading Auletta, Ken. The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997. Auletta, Ken. Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. New York: Random House, 1991. Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Biggs, Barton. Hedge hogging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006. The Buffett Partnership. Collection of Reports to Investors, 1958–1969. Byrne, John A. The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business and the Legacy They Left Us. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1993. Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Cunningham, Lawrence. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1997. Drucker, Peter F. Adventures of a Bystander. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Ellis, Charles D., ed. (with James R. Vertin). Classics: An Investor’s Anthology. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1989. Gladwell, Malcom. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008. Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Graham, Katharine. Personal History. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997. Hagstrom, R.G. The Warren Buffett Portfolio. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. Kaufman, Peter D. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. Los Angeles: PCA Publications, 2005. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Lawrence, Mary Wells. A Big Life (in Advertising). New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Lowe, Janet. Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. Lowenstein, Roger. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. New York: Random House, 1995. Mauboussin, Michael. More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Poundstone, William. Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Press, Eyal. Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012. Preston, Richard. American Steel. New York: Avon Books, 1992. Pruitt, Bettye H. The Making of Harcourt General: A History of Growth Through Diversification 1922–1992. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. Roberts, John. The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Robichaux, Mark. Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Skildelsky, Robert. John Maynard Keynes, Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920–1937. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Swensen, David F. Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. New York: Free Press, 2005. Tedlow, Richard S. Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. New York: Harper Business, 2001. Train, John. The Money Masters. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Index Note: Page numbers followed by f refer to figures; page numbers followed by t refer to tables."

Source:The Outsiders_ Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

"A. J. P. Taylor, Brad Stone, Andrew Roberts, Roy Jenkins, Winston Churchill (the author), David Cannadine, Robert Tombs, Walter Isaacson, Neal Gabler, Tom Cannon, Bob Dylan (the author), Ian Bell, Thomas Kuhn, Viktor Frankl, Robert Skidelsky, Victor Sebestyen, Nelson Mandela (the author), Peter Hain, Lindy Woodhead, A. N. Wilson, Andrew Welburn, John Campbell, Nancy Andreasen, Timothy Wilson and Max Gunther."

Source:Unreasonable Success and How to Achieve It

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