Buffett's Leadership Style

Term Paper # 103647

Business > Finance, Investment and Banking
Business > Management

A discussion of Warren Buffett's successful leadership and investment strategies.

2,288 words () | 9 sources | MLA | 2008 United States

Paper Summary:

The paper utilizes J.M Kouzes and B.Z. Posner's framework of leadership to consider the leadership qualities and leadership style of Warren Buffett of Berkshire Hathaway and other corporations. The paper describes Buffett's childhood and entry into the business world. The paper explains Buffett's methods and his philosophy of how to value an investment.

From the Paper:

"Buffett was born in 1930. As a child, Buffett already showed himself to be ambitious--he was an enthusiastic and industrious paper boy for the Washington Post, trying to cover more than one route at the same time, and he also made money by collecting and selling lost golf balls. His interest in finance was also apparent extremely early in his life when he started playing the stock market with one of his sisters when he was eleven. When he was twelve, he was betting on horses, and by high school he had started a business (pinball machines) with a friend, a business which earned him fifty dollars a week. By graduation, he not only owned his own business, but he also had purchased forty acres of Nebraskan farm land with his profits."

Sample of Sources Used:

"Buffett, Warren." Current Biography Yearbook 1987. Chicago: Gale, 1988.
George, Bill. "The Master Gives It Back." U.S. News & World Report (10 April 2007). April 9, 2007. http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/061022/30buffett.htm.
Hagstrom, Robert G. The Warren Buffett Way. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.
Irmsher, Karen. (1996, January). Communication skills. ERIC Digest 102, from Clearinghouse on Educational Policy and Management (January 1996). April 9, 2007. http://eric.uoregon.edu/publications/digests/digest102.html.
Kouzes, J.M. & Posner, B.Z. (1987). The Leadership Challenge. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1987.