Updates

  1. Person pages list letters, writing, profiles and links as sortable tables with filters, and show each person's companies as links; Fund letters show each letter's description in its own column.
  2. Experts show a checked job title and a short description of each person; 30 more people have photographs.
  3. Every company, fund, university and publication the experts work for has a page listing the people there.
  4. Fund letters show each letter's thesis and filter by it; 225 person pages list the essays, columns and newsletter issues the person wrote.
  5. Person pages list every essay and newsletter issue a person wrote, and their own books as a table in List view.
  6. Recommends shows the five largest kinds of book and the rest under More; browse pictures load sooner.
  7. Podcasts and talks link the original episode, filter by Audio and video or Press, and list each publisher once.
  8. Pages are wider, Recommends has List and Grid, and a filter clicked again turns off.
  9. Book cards sit in a ruled grid with Open Library and Goodreads links and each book's one-line note.
  10. Funds is now Investors; each investor's styles are buttons that filter the table.
  11. Podcasts and talks on a person's page filter by year and publisher and show as a list or a grid of pictures.
  12. Quotes show only people's own words: 472 summaries written by list sites are gone.
  13. Country pages open from Browse again, and every link on the shelf lands on a page.
  14. Subject and person pages show their sections as tabs, and each book appears once on a person's page.
  15. Book cards show the quote, who said it and the source; grids show five cards to a row.
  16. On a phone, a menu holds the sections, search, Updates, Feedback and dark mode.
  17. Feedback takes a screenshot of the page with no browser prompt, opens a screenshot full size when you click it, and clears itself once sent.
  18. Book cards are centred, search names the topic each book sits in, and any text cut short shows whole on hover.
  19. Search groups its results by kind: people, companies, geographies, subjects, topics, books, funds, fund letters and papers.
  20. The Books table lists who recommended each book by name, and the browser tab names the section you are in.
  21. Feedback can take a screenshot of the page, or one you paste or choose, and opens in the corner beside Updates.
  22. Each rail button reopens its section where you left it, and Browse, Table and People show on every book and subject page.
  23. Filters grey out choices that hold nothing instead of hiding them, and Books › People filters by authors or recommenders.
  24. Feedback takes a subject line and up to three screenshots.
  25. Biographies are grouped by the person they are about: 41 new pages, from Abraham Lincoln to Lee Kuan Yew.
  26. Sport splits into 23 sports, and Religion into one topic per faith.
  27. Book lists show as cards: the cover, one recommendation quote and every recommender by name.
  28. Seventeen subjects that had two or three pages under different names now have one page each.
  29. Every page lists its Experts as authors and recommenders, with a link to them on the Experts tab.
  30. Economics, Financial history, Financial panics and Accounting are subjects of their own, with one page per financial crisis.
  31. Book, person and subject pages open inside the app, so the tabs stay in view.
  32. 996 more book covers, and photographs or logos for 227 more people and companies.
  33. Books › Browse shows every subject as cards, and the rail holds Fund letters, Papers, Experts, Books and Funds.
  34. Every topic over 150 books splits into narrower topics, each with a page of its own.

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Family businesses and long-horizon ownership

Business models

Concentrated, patient ownership and the succession problem that eventually tests it.

Books 9Experts 1Recommenders 10

Start here

  1. Small GiantsBo Burlingham, 2005
  2. Hidden ChampionsHermann Simon, 1996
  3. DynastiesDavid S. Landes, 2006
  4. Generation to GenerationKelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, Ivan Lansberg, 1997
Built to LastBuilt to Last
T1 Built to Last
Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras · 1994
Open LibraryGoodreads

What eighteen long-lived companies did differently from close rivals in their fields.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Drew Houston, Ev Williams and 3 others

Generation to GenerationGeneration to Generation
T1 Generation to Generation
Kelin E. Gersick, John A. Davis, Marion McCollom Hampton, Ivan Lansberg · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

How family firms develop, seen as three overlapping circles: family, owners, firm.

Keeping the Family Business HealthyKeeping the Family Business Healthy
T2 Keeping the Family Business Healthy
John L. Ward · 1987
Open LibraryGoodreads

How family-owned firms can plan for growth, ownership and succession.

Hidden ChampionsHidden Champions
T2 Hidden Champions
Hermann Simon · 1996
Open LibraryGoodreads

Little-known mid-sized firms, mostly German, that lead world niche markets.

Family WealthFamily Wealth
T2 Family Wealth
James E. Hughes Jr. · 1997
Open LibraryGoodreads

What a family must preserve to keep its wealth: its human and intellectual capital.

Perpetuating the Family BusinessPerpetuating the Family Business
T2 Perpetuating the Family Business
John L. Ward · 2004
Open LibraryGoodreads

Lessons on why some family firms survive across generations and others do not.

Small GiantsSmall Giants
T2 Small Giants
Bo Burlingham · 2005
Open LibraryGoodreads

Fourteen companies, such as Anchor Brewing and Zingerman's, that chose to stay small.

Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Catriona Wallace, Noah Kagan and 1 other

DynastiesDynasties
T2 Dynasties
David S. Landes · 2006
Open LibraryGoodreads

What drives family business dynasties such as the Rothschilds, Fords and Toyodas.

Lessons from Century Club CompaniesLessons from Century Club Companies
T4 Lessons from Century Club Companies
Vicki TenHaken · 2016
Open LibraryGoodreads

What Japanese companies that have lasted over a century have in common.

“''Lessons from Century Club Companies, Managing for Long Term Success'' by Vicki Tenhaken” — Prem Watsa

Source: Fairfax Financial 2020 Shareholders' Letter, p. 30

Recommended by: Prem Watsa

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