Transformation in Leadership, Part 1: A Developmental Study of Warren Buffett
Feature Articles / March 2013
Edward J. Kelly
Abstract
The following is a summary of my developmental research on Warren Buffett. The study concludes that Warren Buffett has gone through seven transformations in leadership and that his character development is largely responsible for his success as a leader.
Introduction
I first became actively interested in Warren Buffett in 1995 having read Roger Lowenstein’s The Making of an American Capitalist. Sometime later I started trying to invest like Buffett and shortly after that, and having
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