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

INTRODUCTION

Even before the coronavirus pandemic exposed flaws in government planning and tested the limits of modern medicine, the world had already become frighteningly out of balance. Tweets had taken over from substantive conversation and “news” had become unapologetically biased. High debt levels and rising leverage risk was something only old people talked about. Massive transfers in wealth, led by cheap money and various asset bubbles, were bringing us to the verge of revolution. And political extremism was gaining ground in many countries around the globe. A world that counts $15 trillion in negative-yielding government debt as not enough is a different world from the one we grew up in. And now a recession has put many businesses on ...