by Julia Felton | Apr 1, 2012
Mechanics are great at systems and perfecting the details. They can be found with the smartest system which often becomes the platform for other people’s products.
Here is the Roger Hamilton Top 10 Billionaire Mechanics to follow:
Ingvar Kamprad (Sweden) – Founder of furniture designer, IKEA, Kamprad, like all Mechanics, is frugal and has little desire to flaunt his wealth. He is worth between $50 billion and $90 billion.
Karl Albrecht (Germany) – Co-founder of Aldi, Germany’s discount supermarket chain, he is the wealthiest man in Germany, worth $25 billion.
Larry Page (USA) – Co-founder of Google, the mother of all platforms. The brain behind the mechanics of the search engine. He’s 38 years old and worth $20 billion.
Michael Dell (USA) – Founder of Dell Inc, which began in computers, like all Mechanics he found his niche in cheaper ways to put things together better, and bringing the price down. Net worth: $15 billion.
Mark Zuckerberg (USA) – Founder of Facebook. As with most Mechanics, the idea wasn’t his, but he was the best at perfecting it. He is 27 years old and worth $14 billion.
Robin Li (China) – The China equivalent of Larry Page, Li founded China’s most popular search engine, Baidu. He is 42 years old and worth $9 billion.
Zhang Jindong (China) – Founder of the Suning Group, Zhang is one of the wealthiest men in China by finding smarter ways to sell air conditioning. He is worth $4 billion.
Ma Huateng (China) – Founder of Tencent, which has been called ‘China’s answer to AOL’, he is always tinkering in the background to come up with the next platform. He is 39 and worth $2 billion.
Linsday Fox (Australia) – Founder of trucking and Logistics Company, Linfox, Fox started as a trucker and became one of the richest men in Australia, with a net worth of $1 billion.
Gerald Harvey (Australia) – Founder of retail chain Harvey Norman, Harvey has taken the Mechanic approach of the cheapest, simplest route to market. He is worth $1 billion.
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by Julia Felton | Mar 6, 2012
Creators are always the ones that are first to start high-growth companies, interestingly it isn’t the Creators who are hitting the headlines as much, as our global economy is in the Winter season.
Steve Jobs (USA) – It has been five months since Steve Jobs passed away, yet his company, Apple, and his creations continue to hit the headlines. Creators are always working months and even years in advance. We are now seeing the launch of the HD iPad, which will turn the tablet into a high definition portable TV and gaming screen, as well as an HD camera. Apple TV and the iCar will also be big disrupters this year, as will the shift taking place in education and the PC market. These were all anticipated by Steve in his final year, and his future is becoming our present.
Richard Branson (UK) – Richard Branson has been in the news for over four decades now, but always for new ventures riding the waves of change. He is again hitting the news for his latest two ventures: At the end of last year, Northern Rock was sold to Virgin Money, turning the company into a progressive bank that is likely to be at the forefront of the current banking revolution. Virgin Galactic is preparing for its first sub-orbital flights within the year. As with all Creators, Branson is always focused at his most recent creation, as his other businesses are run by others.
Jack Ma (CHINA) – What does a Creator do when their creations start sinking due to the Winter market? Button down and buy back! That’s what Branson did in the late 1980s, what Jobs did in the late 1990s, and what Alibaba.com founder, Jack Ma, is now doing. In the last month, Jack Ma has announced plans to buy back shares in Alibaba for $2.5 billion, taking it from a listed company back into private hands. This will also unshackle it from Yahoo, which owns a big chunk of shares in the company. Given Alibaba’s growth ($339m profit in the last year, x7 the profit of a year earlier), Jack will be back in spring energy with the company after the buy-out.
“As the world economy moves through the Winter Season, the smart Creator profile entrepreneurs are biding their time and eyeing high growth markets. It is only a matter of years before the Winter moves back to Spring, and the wealth of the prepared Creators will skyrocket.” – Roger James Hamilton
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by Julia Felton | Feb 15, 2012
We continue the journey around the profiles with the Top 3 Accumulators in the News, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Talent Dynamics System. This group have seen a surge in their wealth as the global financial crisis has seen a shift from autumn to winter in the market cycle.
Warren Buffett (USA) – Buffett has been in the Top 3 wealthiest in the world for many years, and is worth over $50 billion. He has followed a text-book accumulator strategy his entire life, and collects appreciating assets through Berkshire Hathaway. In the recent downturn, he has seen an upturn in his own wealth, as he has collected (and profited from) undervalued equities that have since risen in value.
Carlos Slim (Mexico) – Slim is the wealthiest person in the world, and, like Buffett, has focused in one area and stuck there. In Slim’s case, it is in undervalued assets in Mexico, where he has built a dominant position in state utilities, and amassed a fortune of $74 billion.
Li Ka-Shing (China) – Li is the richest person in East Asia, with a net worth of $24 billion. Again, his strategy has been the accumulator strategy of staying focused in one area, finding economies, controlling assets and rising with the tide. Li achieved this in Hong Kong, and continues to evolve his strategy based on cheap areas he can dominate and add value to.
Accumulators profit from downturns, and so make their money when times are tough. In the coming blog, Roger Hamilton will cover the Top 3 Traders in the News. The glory days of traders came and went in the last decade, but will return again.
“In the same way that the global economy has seasons, every country economy and industry also has seasons, which means somewhere in the world is the right place, right time for every profile. Success then, doesn’t begin with the choice of what to do. It begins with the choice of where to do it.”
– Roger Hamilton
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by Julia Felton | Dec 15, 2011
Traders have driven the entire wealth of our markets – both up and down – over the last ten years. As the global cycle has shifted, and wealth in the Western World has moved towards the Accumulators who are accumulating their assets, the Traders are increasingly moving towards the emerging economies in the East.
Jim Rogers (Singapore) – Rogers is a Trader who is constantly in the news as he has continued to move as markets have changed. After making his fortune in the US, with George Soros in the Soros fund, Rogers first moved into commodities, and then moved to Asia. He has set up indexes in these areas that have allowed him to earn from the investment in his indexes. He recently said to a group of Oxford university students “The power is shifting again from the financial centers to the producers of real goods. The place to be is in commodities, raw materials, natural resources.”
George Soros (USA) – Soros, who made his name making a billion dollars betting against Sterling, has recently closed down his hedge fund altogether, taking his $14.5 billion and managing it in his personal trust. He remains an outspoken critic of current government policy and is focusing on the global challenges of democracy with his philanthropy work.
Mikhail Fridman (Russia) – Fridman began trading commodities in Russia, and moved to energy trading and then entire processing businesses through his Alfa Capital. Like Soros, he has grown his interest in balance and democracy into politics. Today he is worth $15.1 billion, and has exited many of his holdings.
The shift in the global cycle can be seen by the actions of the leading profiles and how they are operating at any time. As Roger Hamilton says, the shift to the winter phase of business can be seen by not only the wealth of Accumulators but the defensive strategies of the top Traders.
“Waves have ups and downs, but all seas still have a level. Every peak has a trough. Seeing every market as a rolling wave allows us to see where we should be, and when, based on our profile.”
– Roger Hamilton
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by Julia Felton | Nov 15, 2011
The Top 3 Stars in the news, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Talent Dynamics System, continues with the series highlighting each of the Top 3 newsmakers in each category. Stars are not the same as simply Hollywood stars or rock stars, but entrepreneurs who follow the Star strategy of building their brand rather than products to attract their fortune.
Oprah Winfrey (USA) – Stars are finding that their traditional leverage channels are changing. Oprah Winfrey has rolled with the changes, shifting her focus from her Oprah Winfrey Show (which ended this year) to OWN – The Oprah Winfrey Network. This is the trend with many of the top Stars, who are extending their brand beyond the media which made them a household name. Oprah is now worth $2.7 billion, and is the richest self-made woman in the world.
Ashton Kutcher (USA) – A tireless self-promoter, Ashton Kutcher has leveraged his brand beyond his media celebrity to become a successful angel investor. He is pioneering a new genre of young stars who are no longer relying on the media for their paycheck. His self-promoted campaign to become the first twitter account with 1 million followers succeeded in giving his company, Katalyst Media, in the spotlight. He’s now an investor in tech start-ups Airbnb, Foursquare and Flip, and leverages his brand to attract extra attention to them. He has a net worth of over $140 million.
Al Gore (USA) – The US Political System is designed to favor Star profiles. Stars have reached the Presidency every year since Roosevelt (This is the opposite of China, that consistently puts Lord profiles in the top spot). What do Star politicians do when they leave politics? Al Gore has used his brand to continue to promote his ‘Inconvenient Truth’ mission of saving the environment. This is making him money as he goes. He heads climate change investments at famous VC firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, is an Apple Board Director and Google Advisor, and has a net worth of over $100 million.“As the world economy moves deeper into Winter Season, the smart Star profile entrepreneurs are diversifying and seeking to ride waves in new media and new ways to leverage their brand. The collapse of old media channels with accelerate as Stars migrate to new media, bringing their audiences with them.” – Roger James Hamilton
by Julia Felton | Oct 15, 2011
The Top 3 Deal Makers in the news, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Talent Dynamics System, follow on within this series highlighting each of the Top 3 newsmakers in each category. We are seeing industries that have reached a saturation in their market increasingly turn to the Deal Makers to bring together old value to create something new, so we see this play out most prominently in the media industry, and in countries with emerging domestic markets, like India and China. Here are the Top 3.
Rupert Murdoch (USA) – Several years ago Roger Hamilton predicted that traditional print media would become increasingly sensationalist to try and retain readers, and when it fell, it would do so by going to far, creating news and scandal. Murdoch has been on the receiving end of that this year with the News International phone hacking scandal. Even so, he remains up in Forbes’ and Times’ list of the most influential people in the world.
Simon Cowell (UK) – A product of the shift in power of media to the Deal Makers, Cowell has built a reality TV platform with the likes of American Idol, the X-Factor and Britain’s Got Talent. Originally a deal maker for pop bands, he has used this platform to attract talent, and he then makes the money by signing the best talent to his agencies after the public vote them in. He is now worth over £200 million.
Anil Ambani (INDIA) – Reflecting the boom in consumer industries in India, Ambani has made it big in finance and media, recently doing a $825 million deal to bring Steven Spielberg’s studio to India. He is now the fourth richest man in India with $8.8 billion, behind Azim Premi, Laksmi Mittal and his brother, Mukesh Ambani.
“What we can expect to see in the coming years is a shift of the deal makers to the new industries that are moving from summer to autumn. That means expect to hear of venture capitalists making it big in China and India, and brand name deal makers behind deals in media, communications, and public offerings in emerging countries.” – Roger James Hamilton
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by Julia Felton | Oct 14, 2011
Here are the Top 3 Lords, based on Roger James Hamilton’s Talent Dynamics System. As the global economy is in winter, it is the Lord Profiles who are shining through, creating cash flow from their assets and managing their risk carefully.
Sergey Brin (USA) – Sergey is co-founder of Google together with his Mechanic profile partner, Larry Page. Sergey is 38 years old and worth $20 billion. Constantly analyzing data and detail, he has created in Google a perfect example of a Lord business, where it doesn’t need to own the asset (content) because it controls the most effective access to the asset and charges every time.
Lakshmi Mittal (UK) – Originally from India, Lakshmi has become the richest man in England through his steel empire, making him a modern-day Carnegie. Like Sergey, he makes his money by finding efficiencies and then dominates the industry through economies of scale. Today he is worth $38 billion.
Gina Rinehart (Australia) – Another favourite industry for Lords is the mining industry. Gina controls mines in Western Australia and as the Global Economy has gone into winter season, China has stocked up on ore, making Gina the first female billionaire in Australia and the richest Australian with $2 billion in wealth.
Next Roger Hamilton will cover the Top 3 Accumulators making the news today. In the same way that the most successful Lords are stepping into their flow as the markets move, the Accumulators have recently enjoyed their wave, rising to become the wealthiest in the world today.
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