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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Caterpillar way
    sub title: lessons in leadership, growth, and shareholder value
  name:
    name part: Bouchard, Craig T.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Koch, James V.
    name part: 1942-
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: MacFadden, Gary
    role:
      role term: narrator.
  type of resource: sound recording-nonmusical
  genre: Downloadable audio books.
  genre: Audiobooks.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2013
    edition: [First edition].
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 sound file (9 hr., 39 min.))
  abstract: How one tenacious company found the drive to succeed--on a global scale In the early 1980s, Caterpillar, Inc. lost one million dollars per day for three consecutive years. Its continuing existence came into question. Today, "CAT" is the world's most profitable manufacturer of construction and mining equipment and large engines. The now legendary global company made numerous well-calculated, though risky decisions for three consecutive decades--in the process scaling to heights unimaginable to even the finest business enterprises. How did they do it? The Caterpillar Way. Senior management at CAT facilitated the authors' one-year odyssey through the hallways and intriguing history of the construction industry giant. This inspiring book takes you behind the scenes with the CEOs, executive vice presidents, managers, dealers, customers, union bosses, and Wall Street analysts who were players in Caterpillar's drive to global dominance. You'll discover: CAT's change-or-die approach to restructuring How a local firm from central Illinois became a local firm on a global basis The secret behind Caterpillar's decades-long revenue explosion How to use branding and product financing effectively What true dedication and commitment to Six Sigma really entails Why Caterpillar became the mecca for HR officers negotiating with unions The authors' prediction of CAT's stock price through 2020 The Caterpillar Way provides essential management lessons in powerful behind-the-scenes stories. You'll learn how the Caterpillar leaders responded quickly to changing markets, allocated capital efficiently throughout the firm, and nourished a cultish team spirit that wins. Innovative leaders make game-changing decisions. If any company is built to last, it's Caterpillar, Inc. With its trademark yellow trucks, cranes, machinery and engines, this home-grown manufacturer has survived more than its share of ups and downs to become the #1 industry leader of construction equipment in the world. The Cat…
  note: Craig T. Bouchard and James V. Koch.
  note: Read by Gary MacFadden.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Caterpillar Tractor Company.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Caterpillar Tractor Company.
  subject:
    topic: Tractor industry
    geographic: United States
    topic: Management
  subject:
    topic: Tractor industry
    topic: Management
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: HD9710.4.U64
  classification: 338.7/62/92250973
  identifier: 9781639290703
  identifier: 1639290702
  identifier: 9781639290703 O'Reilly Media
  identifier: https://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ORMDA
    record creation date: 220928
    record change date: 20260129224759.3
    record identifier: in00004672709
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng