How Ken Hersh Built a $20B Energy Empire: Risk, Resilience, and The Fastest Tortoise

The Fastest Tortoise

Winning in Industries I Knew Nothing About -- A Life Spent Figuring It Out

by Ken Hersh with Steve Fiffer

Through entertaining conversations with best-selling author Steve Fiffer, Ken Hersh recounts his improbable journey from knowing nothing about the energy industry to pioneering an investment methodology that built one of the country's most successful private investment firms. That model has since been copied by dozens of firms to become the dominant means by which capital flows into domestic energy. Structured around "Ken-isms" like "yellow lights don't turn green," "be uncomfortable," and "feed the ducks while they're quacking," the book covers his path from planting a flag in an industry where the investment model had to be reinvented, to creating a culture where colleagues felt like family, to pursuing a second career leading the George W. Bush Presidential Center. An Amazon Best Seller in Industrial Management & Leadership, Energy & Mining Industry, and Nonprofit Organizations & Charities.