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The Real Warren Buffett: Managing Capital, Leading People | 
 enlarge | Author: James O'loughlin
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Ltd
Category: Book
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Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 582791
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 282
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.3 x 1
ISBN: 185788308X
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.15092
EAN: 9781857883084
ASIN: 185788308X
Publication Date: October 1, 2002
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Packed With Knowledge! June 12, 2004
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A sentence crafter happily at work, James O'Loughlin imparts clarity with literacy. On the rare occasion that his industrious research does not find just the right quote from Buffett or Munger (chapters average 90 footnotes), he uses their favorite metaphors from sports and life. This is excellent writing that falls short only on prophesy and damnation. Buffett must pass Berkshire on to an heir in the next decade, but exactly who might follow him is given short shrift. How this unknown magician might cope with Munger (too old to be an heir) is avoided carefully. The manuscript was begun before September 11, 2001, created insurance chaos, but O'Loughlin doesn't elaborate upon it, beyond suggesting that chaos benefits Buffett - whose main float derives from super catastrophic insurance and reinsurance. We recommend this volume highly - along with getting to know the Real Buffett, you will learn a tidy amount about economics.
Packed with Knowledge! April 11, 2003
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
A sentence crafter happily at work, James O’Laughlin imparts clarity with literacy. On the rare occasion that his industrious research does not find just the right quote from Buffett or Munger (chapters average 90 footnotes), he uses their favorite metaphors from sports and life. This is excellent writing that falls short only on prophesy and damnation. Buffett must pass Berkshire on to an heir in the next decade, but exactly who might follow him is given short shrift. How this unknown magician might cope with Munger (too old to be an heir) is avoided carefully. The manuscript was begun before September 11, 2001, created insurance chaos, but O’Laughlin doesn’t elaborate upon it, beyond suggesting that chaos benefits Buffett — whose main float derives from super catastrophic insurance and reinsurance. We from getAbstract recommend this volume highly — along with getting to know the Real Buffett, you will learn a tidy amount about economics.
The kind of return on investment to excite Warren Buffett December 3, 2002
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
I'm sure that like me your time is scarce and you are reading this review to determine which book to read next to improve your investment returns. Well I can save you some time and recommend that you read this one.
O'Loughlin's book won't make you smarter. What it will do is help you to cut out the mistakes that prove so costly to capial accumulation.
I've read most of the popular books about Buffett. All are interesting, because his tale is compelling, but unlike the others, this book is valuable too.
Why does Tiger win all the majors rather than Phil Mickelson? Both can hit amazing shots, but Tiger has developed a series of mental processes that enables him to employ superior course management to the rest of us and so reduce the chance of dropping shots.
So it is with Buffett. This book describes how Buffett has employed a series of mental models to circumvent the ways that our brains delude us into thinking we are making sound decisions when we are making poor ones.
The take-away messages are clear and I have found it relatively straight-forward to employ them in my investment decision making process. I am making fewer decisions, but feeling much more comfortable with each one.
There's much more to the book than this, but to be honest your time would be better spent learning from O'Loughlin and Buffett than from me.
It took Buffett 40 years and billions of dollars to learn these processes. You can learn them in a couple of hours for under 20 quid. Now, that really is a Buffett-esque bargain!
Buffett's investment wisdom distilled November 17, 2002
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I thought that I knew a lot about Buffett and his investment style from previous books written about him. However, this book gives a new insight into Buffett and his unique investment style. It does this by dissecting his annual reports and reassembling Buffett's wisdom in distinct categories. This makes the task of understanding and replicating Buffett's work so much easier. O'Loughlin has carefully chosen pertinent quotes and has achieved the right balance between quotes and his own comments. For any student of Buffettology, this is a book that I can strongly recommend.
Same guy - very different angle - Excellent November 6, 2002
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Many books have been written on the massive success that Warren Buffett has achieved through Berkshire Hathaway. Most of these however have focussed on individual aspects of his success and moreover, most have been written with a 'stockpickers' mentality. This book is different. It takes a holistic view of Warren Buffet's style, not just from the way he selects investments, but also in the way that he utlises them and the managers he inherits. It held vital insights for me as a manager of people (as well as an ex-manager of capital), and at its core is a model that can be extracted from this context and reused in many other situations....maybe there is another book to come from Mr. O'Loughlin?
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