"Corporate culture, a modern concept akin to vague notions like team spirit, is trickier to define than venerable tools of business analysis, such as return on investment. **A soft and capacious variable, culture results from multiple inputs, which may conflict with one another**. Whether called corporate culture or something else, **the manifest recurrence of a discrete number of traits is significant to the identity, performance, and durability of [[Berkshire Hathaway|Berkshire]] as an institution**. ([Location 1145](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00K33E460&location=1145))" --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[organisational-culture]] , [[intangible-assets]] **Source** -- [[202407260951 - B - Berkshire Beyond Buffett]]