GMAT阅读训练方法指点
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The Fishing Guide Who Hooked Hedge-Fund Titan Bill Ackman
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Oliver White is 32 years old, rake-thin and brown eyed, with windblown hair that pokes from
his hat as if seeking the sunlight. Thanks to an unlikely meeting with one of the world’s most
powerful hedge fund managers, White is a brand in the making in the fishing and travel industry.
But the day we meet, at Snake Cay, an expansive flat of knee-deep water on the western shore of
Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, he has gone back to his roots.
White stands barefoot on a platform on the back of his skiff, using an 18-foot graphite pole
to nudge the shallow-draft boat along. He scans the water for bonefish, the prized fly rod quarry
of the Bahamian flats, shadowy in natural silver and black camouflage.
Leadership Lessons From Fishing Guides
Monte Burke
Forbes Staff
“There’s one, man. Two o’clock,” he tells me. I spot the fish—a large one—and cast.
As my 2-inch-long shrimp fly nestles on the sandy bottom, I give it a few tugs to make it lifelike.
The bonefish follows the fly for a few feet, then suddenly flushes, creating a 25-yard-long wake
as it flees.
“Don’t worry, man. There’ll be others,” White tells me. And he’s right. There are many
more shots at great fish—with some actually landed—during my three days at Abaco Lodge, where
White is the manager and part-owner, and a very busy man. In a whirlwind 72-hour period White
will simultaneously play host to a group of fun-loving Canadian doctors, sign contracts to write
a book and host a fishing television show, work on a deal to sell this lodge and buy another,
and pinch-hit as a guide.
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His BlackBerry is always present, its ring puncturing the serenity of the flats, as incongruous
as a chain saw at an opera. But it’s all part of building a business and a brand. “I want to
make some money,” White says. “But it’s about the lifestyle, too. I really like not wearing
shoes.”
One morning in January 2004 two men walked into Kau Tapen, in Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego,
a lodge catering to a discriminating, highly skilled subset of the fly-fishing world. It is no
place for amateurs.
White, then 24, was one of the lodge’s head guides. He had graduated with a degree in philosophy
from the University of North Carolina, then taken a job as a flyfishing guide. As it turned out,
he was very good at it. He guided, among others, Blackstone’s Tony James; Bob Rich, the owner
of Rich Food Products; and Ilya Sherbovich, the Moscow banker. He was entering his third year
at Kau Tapen when he spied the two men. They seemed very much out of place.
What little gear they had—waders and hats—was brand new. They did not have rods. One man
had a shock of gray hair that belied his youthful face. His name was Bill Ackman, the hedge fund
impresario who had, that very week, launched Pershing Square Capital Management 6,500 miles away
in Manhattan. Ackman had won his fishing trip at a charity auction. “I was told it was the best
place in the world to fish,” he says. The only problem: Neither he nor his friend had ever flyfished.
It was the equivalent of showing up for a tee time at Augusta National when the extent of your
golf experience was a few rounds of putt-putt.
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White became Ackman’s guide on the trip and taught him how to fly-fish. “Bill was demanding
and very inquisitive,” says White. The two talked about “fishing and life,” says Ackman.
By the end of the week Ackman had caught a 24-pound sea-run brown trout on a fly, then returned
the favor with an astounding offer: a job. “Oliver was extremely bright,” says Ackman. “I told
him I would send him 12 books on investing—by Graham, Greenblatt, Lynch and Buffett—and that
when he’d finished them, he should call me.” Says White: “I really didn’t think that much
of it. You meet clients who offer you things all the time.”
But when White returned to the States for the summer to guide in Jackson Hole, Wyo., he was
greeted with the box of books. “I read them all,” says White. “But I still wasn’t sure about
all of this. Finance had never intrigued me. But Bill did.”
He called Ackman. Ackman flew White to New York in the fall of 2005, put him up in a hotel
and gave him $10,000 in spending money. That December Ackman hired him to be one of the five analysts
at his hedge fund, which at the time had $1 billion in assets. It is a job for which Ackman says
he receives “a zillion résumés a day.” The other four analysts at Pershing Square had M.B.A.s
