Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success by Scott Davis

Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success by Scott Davis

Three top Wall Street analysts reveal enduring lessons in sustainable success from the great industrial titans—the high-tech companies of their day—to the disruptors that now dominate the economy. Before Silicon Valley disrupted the world with new technologies and business models, America’s industrial giants paved the way. Companies like General Electric, United Technologies, and Caterpillar were the Google and Amazon of their day, setting gold standards in innovation, growth, and profitability. Today’s leaders can learn a great deal from their successes, as well as their missteps. In this essential guide, three veteran Wall Street analysts reveal timeless lessons from the titans of industry—and offer battle-tested survival tactics for an ever-changing world. You’ll learn: how GE became the largest company on earth—only for a culture of arrogance to set in motion the largest collapse in historyhow Boeing reassessed risks, raised profits—and tragically lost its balancehow Danaher avoided the pitfalls of tremendous success—by continually reinventing itselfhow Honeywell experienced a near-fatal cultural breakdown—and executed a flawless turnaroundhow Caterpillar relied too much on forecasting, lost billions—and rallied by recommitting to the basics Filled with illuminating case studies and brilliant in-depth analysis, this invaluable book provides a multitude of insights that will help you weather market upheavals, adapt to disruptions, and optimize your resources to your best advantage. You’ll learn hard-won lessons in innovation, growth, resilience, and operational excellence, as well as the time-proven fundamentals of continuous improvement for lasting success. In the end, you’ll have your own personal toolbox of useful takeaways from more than a century’s worth of data, experience, wisdom, and can-do spirit, courtesy of some of the greatest business enterprises of all time. This is how manufacturers survived the first disruptors of technology—and how today’s giants can survive and thrive during continuous cycles of disruption.

Scott Davis, EdD, served as Chief Executive Officer of Southern Dominion Health System, Inc., a federally qualified health center with nine medical, dental and mental health centers in Southern Virginia while also serving as their Mental Health Director and continuing to provide counseling, training and behavior management services throughout the country. Utilizing a psycho-educational process, Dr. Davis has been training children, parents, educators and other professionals to use best practices for more than twenty years. This book represents the best that two decades have revealed. Dr. Davis is a renowned trainer and has provided hundreds of lectures to thousands of attendees across the country. Dr. Davis has contributed significantly to research and training on a multitude of subjects, including the following: Positive Behavior Support, Applied Behavior Analysis, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Autism, Asperger's Syndrome, Depression, Anxiety Disorders, Personality Disorders, Dementia, and Brain Injury. Dr. Davis has worked as a Behavior Management Specialist, Autism Trainer, Traumatic Brain Injury Coordinator, Psychotherapist, Behavioral Services Director, Mental Health Director and now Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Davis's first love is our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, followed by his wife, family, friends, counseling, and Kung Fu. Dr. Davis is also the author of 101 Self Defense Techniques of Kung Fu, Basic to Advanced. Dr. Davis suffered a traumatic brain injury because of a reckless drinking driver in 2015 and is currently disabled, but working on his recovery and hopes to be able to once again help others with his knowledge and experience.

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ISBN 13	9781260468397
ISBN 10	1260468399
Titel	Lessons from the Titans: What Companies in the New Economy Can Learn from the Great Industrial Giants to Drive Sustainable Success
Autor	Scott Davis
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Bindungsart	Hardback
Verlag	McGraw-Hill Education
Erscheinungsjahr	2020-08-11
Seitenanzahl	352
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