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The Fastest Tortoise: Winning in Industries I Knew Nothing About―A Life Spent Figuring It Out
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About The Fastest Tortoise: Winning In Industries I Knew
Product Description Life lessons from an investor who forged his own path to success Through their entertaining conversations, Ken Hersh and his interviewer, best-selling author Steve Fiffer, recount Ken’s improbable life journey, both personally and professionally. And what a journey it has been! Knowing nothing about the energy industry, Ken ventured in and ultimately helped pioneer an investment methodology that built one of the country’s most successful private investment firms and has been copied by dozens of firms to become the dominant means by which capital flows into the domestic energy industry. As a fearless young capitalist, he never shied away from raising his hand. He says, “I viewed every opening as a gaping opportunity. The uncertainty kind of excited me.” The Fastest Tortoise is about not just weathering the unknown but embracing it and thriving. Structuring his story around “Ken-isms” that define his personal and professional philosophies—such as “yellow lights don’t turn green,” “be uncomfortable,” and “feed the ducks while they’re quacking”—Ken demonstrates how to approach a volatile world. Ken’s path, from planting his flag in an industry where an investment model had to be reinvented, to creating a culture in which colleagues and staff felt like family, to pursuing a second career in the nonprofit sector, gives leaders and entrepreneurs of all stripes ample examples from which to draw valuable lessons, inspiration, motivation, and confidence. With his honest, in-depth tales of the ups and downs of his business and personal dealings, we get an inside look at how this optimist has successfully navigated life and business. Review “I have long admired Ken Hersh’s business skills and now admire his literary skills as well. A first-rate read about a compelling life story. I cannot recommend it too highly.” —DAVID M. RUBENSTEIN, cofounder of the Carlyle Group, host of The David Rubenstein Show, and author of How to Lead and How to Invest “We always look at successful people and wonder what special qualities they had to bring them success. In The Fastest Tortoise, Ken Hersh lays out a charming, funny, and human story of how he rose to the pinnacle of success in America. In addition to the many totally readable life lessons, the most important one is that nice guys can finish first.” —BILL BROWDER, author of Red Notice and Freezing Order “Ken Hersh has a knack for storytelling. His career spans building a $20 billion private equity firm to heading a presidential center on an academic campus. But he is much more than a latter-day Forrest Gump—he is a teacher. The Fastest Tortoise should be required reading in every graduate business school, but the stories are so entertaining—and enlightening—that the everyday reader will not be able to put it down. A true delight to read!” — ROBERT W. JORDAN, diplomat in residence at Southern Methodist University and former U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia “By any measure, Ken Hersh has led a rich, purposeful life—from Dallas middle-class youth to Ivy League aspirant, to builder of a private equity firm with billions in capital, and then to CEO of a presidential think tank. Along the way, Ken has become a foremost expert on leadership. Thankfully, the ‘fastest tortoise’ has come out of his shell to share the considerable wisdom he has gathered on his journey. As he says, he has ‘a story to tell.’ This absorbing, highly readable book more than proves it.” —MARK K. UPDEGROVE, president and CEO of the LBJ Foundation and author of Incomparable Grace: JFK in the Presidency “For neither the first nor, surely, the last time, Ken Hersh has given others a valuable gift: a stunningly candid account of the challenges he’s confronted—happily and successfully in the main but painfully and failingly at times—as his remarkable life has unfolded. Few in his or any generation have struck a better balance than Ken in doing both well and good. This brutally honest memoir teaches us not only how bu
