Greg Bustin Executive Leadership Blog

In college, I played drums in a jazz band numbering some 20 musicians.
The leader – Dick Goodwin, a highly regarded music professor, well-traveled musician and a very cool guy – had few rules for us.

His most important rule was this: “We start together and we stop together. There’s lots of room in between for experimentation, improvisation and even mistakes. So when you make a mistake during a performance, keep going. Most important, we must always start and stop together. Otherwise people will think we’re not entirely sure of what we’re doing. Which,” he added with a smile, “we're not always.”
Pretty good advice for leaders.  click here for more...

May 1 is the annual meeting – dubbed Woodstock for Capitalists – for shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway, the company led by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

The following excerpts from Buffett’s February 26 letter to shareholders provide a glimpse of the principles, priorities and practices that have guided Berkshire Hathaway to consistent levels of high performance.  click here for more...