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Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model

by Lawrence Cunningham (Author), Stephanie Cuba (Author)
Warren Buffett and his company, Berkshire Hathaway, are legendary for their distinctive investing
approach. Yet many equally unconventional but less well known aspects of Berkshire’s managerial
practices and organizational structure are rich with lessons for those seeking to follow in Buffett’s
footsteps. Margin of Trust is the first book to distill Buffett’s approach to management and corpo-
rate life. It provides a definitive analysis of the tenets of the Berkshire system, its costs and benefits,
and how it can be adapted for other organizations.

Lawrence A. Cunningham and Stephanie Cuba develop a new account of how Berkshire Hathaway
works, showing that the key to its success is trust. Profiling partnership practices and business
methods, they contend that Berkshire’s distinguishing feature is a culture in which autonomy and
decentralization are core management principles. Cunningham and Cuba provide instructive examples of how this model
has been successfully adapted by other companies that share a faith in trust as an organizing principle. They also offer can-
did commentary on the risks of a trust-based approach and how to mitigate them. Margin of Trust features illuminating
analysis of Buffett’s take on the role trust plays in business agreements, what Buffett looks for in great corporate boards,
and what lies ahead for Berkshire after its iconic leader leaves the scene.

HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Design Thinking

by Harvard Business Review (Author), Tim Brown (Author), Clayton M. Christensen (Author),
Indra Nooyi (Author), Vijay Govindarajan (Author)
Use design thinking for competitive advantage.
If you read nothing else on design thinking, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds
of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones to help you use design
thinking to produce breakthrough innovations and transform your organization.
This book will inspire you to:
- Identify customers’ “jobs to be done” and build products people love
- Fail small, learn quickly, and win big
- Provide the support design-thinking teams need to flourish
- Foster a culture of experimentation
- Sharpen your own skills as a design thinker
- Counteract the biases that perpetuate the status quo and thwart innovation
- Adopt best practices from design-driven powerhouses

A Manager’s Guide to the New World of Work: The

Most Effective Strategies for Managing People, Teams,

and Organizations

by MIT Sloan Management Review (Author)
How can technology and analytics help companies manage people? Why do teams working remote-
ly still need leaders? When should organizations use digital assessment tools for gauging talent and
potential? This book from MIT Sloan Management Review answers questions managers are only
beginning to ask, presenting insights and stories from organizations navigating the novel challenges
of the digital workplace.

Experts from business and academia describe what’s worked, what’s failed, and what they’ve learned in the new world of
work. They look at strategies that organizations use to help managers and employees adapt to the fast-changing digital
environment, from the benefits of wool-gathering to the use of anonymous chats; examine digital tools for collaboration, in-
cluding interactive spreadsheets and analytics that increase transparency; and discuss such “big-picture” trends as expand-
ed notions of value and new frontiers in upskilling. A detailed case study, produced by MIT Sloan Management Review in
collaboration with McKinsey & Company, explores how IBM reimagined talent and performance management with the goal
of increasing employee engagement.