ABSTRACT
To demonstrate how a number of the ideas discussed in the preceding chapters have been put into practice, this section will explore a few selected companies in the industry that, in the view of the author, have been managed exceptionally well over an extended period of time. Other firms might be equally successful, but the analysis of these particular firms is to make one or more points, not to conduct a contest. Furthermore, these profiles constitute only a “photograph” at a particular point in time and may well no longer be representative of their current condition when you, the reader, open this book.
