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Your Journey to Joy: Daily Value Points for Transforming Your Life

“Your Journey to Joy: Daily Value Points for Transforming Your Life” consists of quotes and food for thought to assist readers with making changes in their lives. Whatever an individual may be facing – good or perhaps not as good as they’d hoped, the goal of this book is to provide readers a few seeds of inspiration that will keep them encouraged as they read and help identify and address what might not be well serving to position them for greater blessings in life. Also at the end of the book, there are “Coach Valencia’s Go 4th” questions to empower the reader to take action even after they’ve finished reading. These thought provoking questions are designed to help provide some guidance on getting individuals closer to the place they’ve been divinely created to be.

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Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values

Berkshire Hathaway, the $300+ billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world’s largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book challenges that assumption.

In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire’s subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate’s perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary’s origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift, integrity, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and a sense of permanence.

Berkshire Beyond Buffett explores not only what will happen to Berkshire after Buffett, but presents all of Berkshire behind Buffett, the inspiring managerial luminaries, innovative entrepreneurs, and devotees of deep values that define this esteemed organization.

Whether or not you are convinced that Berkshire can endure without Buffett, the book is full of management lessons for small and large businesses, entrepreneurs, family firms, and Fortune 500 CEOs.  Enjoy entertaining tales from Berkshire’s 50 main subsidiaries, including Dairy Queen, GEICO, Benjamin Moore, Fruit of the Loom, BNSF, Justin, Pampered Chef, Marmon, Clayton Homes, FlightSafety, and more.