
2012-Afternoon Session-BRK Annual Shareholders Meeting
Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholder Meetings (since 1994)
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How Do We Share Information Across Units?
We want our businesses To run very autonomously and we want the managers of those businesses to feel like they're their own business That's enormously important in virtue. The moment we start telling them how to change the way they operate or to coordinate with this guy or get this person's approval or anything like that you know that just erodes that advantage which we think is very substantial. We don't make any attempt if somebody goes in to get a quote from January and gets a quote from a Jeep There's no system that prevents Earth the coordinates them our two units to give the same code.
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