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Avoid Unforced Errors and Stay Humble: Warren Buffett’s Leadership Lessons

Business leaders share the advice they took to heart from the consummate CEO whisperer

Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.
Warren Buffett at the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting. Photo: SCOTT MORGAN/REUTERS

For chief executives across America, Warren Buffett isn’t just an unrivaled investor. The Oracle from Omaha is a regular source of management wisdom that business leaders have drawn on for decades.

Buffett hasn’t been shy about sharing his views on how companies should operate. He has railed against corporate bloat, heaping scorn on PowerPoint presentations, meetings, overpaid board members and what he has described as “make-work activities” at companies. At Saturday’s Berkshire Hathaway meeting, he once again called bureaucracy dangerous and said many big companies could be run better.

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