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Rule Breaker Investing

The YODA Method of Measuring Management

Rule Breaker Investing

The Motley Fool

Investing, Business

4.5928 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2016

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Not to be mistaken for Luke Skywalker's little green guru, YODA is a helpful mnemonic for some (though not all) of the key traits that David likes to find in managers of companies he’s considering for investment. Help you it will!

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0:00.0

It's the Rule Breaker Investing Podcast with Motley Full Co-founder David Gardner.

0:07.0

And welcome back to Rule Breaker Investing, the podcast.

0:13.2

I'm David Gardner, really pleased to have you joining with me this week.

0:17.1

And this week we're going to be tackling a subject that has come up a number of times before,

0:22.3

mailbag questions, and it's an enduring question, an important

0:25.8

question.

0:26.8

Summarized thus, hey, you guys at the fool seem to think that the CEOs, the leaders of these companies are really important. The

0:32.8

leaders of these companies are really important. That's part of the calculus, the factor

0:36.6

that causes you to say this doc, not that one. But the question continues,

0:41.6

how do I know whether I'm invested in a company with a good CEO?

0:46.2

How can I size up or understand whether this is a good or bad manager or management team.

0:53.0

And it's a question that I have some answers for.

0:56.0

I have some thoughts about to share with you this week.

0:58.0

Before I do, I want to mention one thing.

1:00.0

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1:03.8

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1:11.0

can just talk about Sharman what a quality product it is for

1:14.3

our listeners but I will mention I will plug one thing very explicitly this one week and

1:18.7

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1:25.0

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