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

2012

Biography

by

William Thorndike

Describes how eight CEOs generated outsized returns, and beat the market, using a secret weapon: superior capital allocation. Learn how the best CEOs deployed their company resources strategically.

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Masterclass on capital allocation. I wish I knew about this book in 2012. Would've been a better CEO. Read 2012 hardcover.

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