Tag Archives: Succession Planning

Restricted Stock Good Alternative to Stock Options — Employee Ownership (a series)

January 17th, 2013

Providing employees an opportunity to have ownership in your company can be a great tool to get alignment with the employees.  Restricted stock is one other tool to reach the Holy Grail of having employees who think like owners [December 9, 2012].  As I wrote… Continue reading →

Enemies of Effective Company Cultures — Ideas from James Heskett

August 7th, 2012

Effective Company Cultures are Vital Building effective company cultures are vital, particularly in success over a long-term and in the creation of  longstanding, defensible moats of competitive advantage.  I enjoy writing about company cultures because they are so important to a company’s success, but also… Continue reading →

Thoughts on the Berkshire Hathaway Meeting 2012

May 6th, 2012

The Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting Below are a few words of advice from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger yesterday at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.  Business owners and investors should make a point to attend a Berkshire annual meeting sometime.  There are not that many… Continue reading →

Berkshire Week 2012: Predict Stephen Burke as next Berkshire CEO

May 2nd, 2012

First, a little extraneous caveat about this prediction.  I have not spoken to anyone at Berkshire about this.  Frankly, I do not know anyone who works at Berkshire.  And, I have no special knowledge about this at all.  It is just a pure guess (maybe a… Continue reading →

Berkshire Meeting Week: Berkshire CEO After Warren Buffett

May 1st, 2012

I believe the next CEO of Berkshire Hathaway is hiding in plain site.  There is a person that is very obvious, but no one (as far as I have read) has mentioned him as a potential candidate.  Tomorrow, I make my prediction.  Today, I have fun… Continue reading →