Berkshire Hathaway, the $500 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them wrong. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's continued prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift, integrity, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and a sense of permanence. Rich with lessons for those wishing to profit from the Berkshire model, this engaging book is a valuable read for entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, family business members, and investors, and it is an important resource for scholars of corporate stewardship. General readers will enjoy learning how an iconoclastic bu

Out Of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World 基本信息 Author: Kevin Kelly Paperback: 528 pages Publisher: Basic Books; Reprint edition (14 April 1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 0201483408 ISBN-13: 978-0201483406 Product Dimensions: 15.2 x 3 x 23.4 cm 内容简述 用最科学的方法，阐释关于生命未来和社会新秩序，一语道破人类最终的命运和结局。 Out of Control chronicles the dawn of a new era in which the machines and systems that drive our economy are so complex and autonomous as to be indistinguishable from living things. 《失控》成书于1994年，作者是《连线》杂志的创始主编凯文 凯利。这本书所记述的，是他对当时科技、社会和经济最前沿的一次漫游，以及借此所窥得的未来图景。书中提到并且今天正在兴起或大热的概念包括：大众智慧、云计算、物联网、虚