The Fairfax Experience: What the Management Texts Didn't Teach Me

About the author.

Preface.

Introduction: On becoming a rat.

1 An off-the-wall appointment.

2 The success Holy Grail.

3 The Fairfax experience.

4 In the hot seat: the decision environment.

5 The positive bias.

6 Being positive about negatives.

7 Lessons for leaders and educators.

Postscript: Media reform.

Appendix A: Fairfax share prices compared with Rural Press and Seven Network share prices.

Appendix B: International newspaper companies — annualised total shareholder returns 1998–2005.

Appendix C: The Buffett tenets for success.

Appendix D: The classic textbook formula for success.

Appendix E: Fairfax’s organisational structure — 1998.

Appendix F: Fairfax’s organisational structure — 1999.

Appendix G: Fairfax’s organisational structure — 2003–2004.

Appendix H: Fairfax’s organisational structure — 2005.

Appendix I: Sample pages from my 2004 business diary.

Notes.

Index.