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- Title
Natural SELECTION.
- Authors
McMANUS, JOHN
- Abstract
TWO ESSENTIAL PROPERTIES, FIT AND FITNESS, form a double-helix genetic code that powers the half-trillion-dollar Berkshire Hathaway empire. Yet according to Kevin Clayton, whom Berkshire's chief sage and strategist has grown to trust implicitly over the years since Berkshire Hathaway acquired Clayton in 2003, even Buffett is capable of letting his imagination take a flight of fancy with the best of us. "Kevin-who I'd competed with and grew up with in manufactured home building as CEO of Southern Energy Homes-called me up in 2006, and said he'd talked to Mr. Buffett about exploring my company, which essentially would give Clayton a vertical-integration, distribution, and network of materials sources. To make such customers the center of the Clayton universe and to convince them, as the company urges, to "Have it made", Clayton had little choice but to attend to another matter first: Its 16,000 full-time associates working in factory facilities, retail outlets, and distribution points around the nation.
- Subjects
SINGLE family housing; NATURAL selection; MODULAR construction; BUSINESS success; PLANNED communities; DOMESTIC architecture
- Publication
Builder: The Magazine of the National Association of Home Builders, 2019, Vol 42, Issue 5, p88
- ISSN
0744-1193
- Publication type
Article