A decent book taking a more nuanced view of CEOs running major companies in the Berkshire Hathaway group. Each chapter devotes to each CEO, as well as Warren Buffet's rationale for making the purchase. The book got a bit repetitive in the latter half of the book, hence the four star. If you're really interested in Warren's investment philosophy, you should watch this HBO documentary-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ridk6...
If you’re interested in becoming or searching for the qualities in superb management this is a great book for you. My favorite aspect was seeing how Buffett found these men and women and his process of buying and how his analysis was conducted. As an investor looking to always find a company with great management this book had numerous insights. My top three (although their were many) are the following:
1. Prefer family run businesses. Multi generational means the business has been around for a long time and likely has a large moat keeping it running.
2. The Berkshire competitive advantage. Buffett gets first access to many of these companies because many of them are looking to be acquired by someone who will mainly be hands off, allow the company to retain all its employees, want to be long-term oriented rather than slaves to Wall Street.
3. Buffett has very specific qualities he looks for in the management running his acquisitions: integrity, love of their work, values, humility, tenure, owner oriented, motivated, energetic, inquisitiveness, and family oriented are a few that stood out to me.