{"id":2058541,"date":"2017-01-02T17:08:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-02T11:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/?p=2058541"},"modified":"2017-01-17T10:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-01-17T04:45:24","slug":"the-outsiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/2017\/01\/02\/the-outsiders\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Outsiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success<\/em> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.in\/Outsiders-Unconventional-Radically-Rational-Blueprint-ebook\/dp\/B009G1T74O?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;ref_=tmm_kin_swatch_0&amp;sr=\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a>,) tells the story of quantitative CEOs and the effect they hand on their companies and their industries. (<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1MsnYa6h4hwwav47jhyggk23dUCVRy1y5EbHLcWhesEw\/\" target=\"_blank\">Excerpts<\/a>)<\/p>\n<h3>Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>I have always maintained that the only thing that matters is Return on Capital (ROC.) However, most people are focused on &#8216;busy work&#8217; and playing &#8216;boss&#8217; that they focus overly on <em>growth<\/em>, at the expense of <em>returns<\/em>. It is oftentimes better to be small and enjoy a high level of return on capital than grow and forgo margins. <\/p>\n<p>The book is careful in portraying the CEO&#8217;s as ruthless psychopaths but in the words of Stiritz, &#8220;Leadership is analysis.&#8221; Indeed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success (Amazon,) tells the story of quantitative CEOs and the effect they hand on their companies and their industries. (Excerpts) Thoughts I have always maintained that the only thing that matters is Return on Capital (ROC.) However, most people are focused on &#8216;busy work&#8217; &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2058551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4023,9],"tags":[3751,3761],"class_list":["post-2058541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-your-money","tag-book","tag-review","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2058541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2058541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2058551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2058541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2058541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockviz.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2058541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}