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 history how Boeing reassessed
risks raised profits-and tragically lost its balance how Danaher avoided the pitfalls of
tremendous success-by continually reinventing itself how Honeywell experienced a near-fatal
cultural breakdown-and executed a flawless turnaround how 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.
