Ted Lapidus

2 Books2 Highlights29 Concepts

Ted Lapidus appears across 2 books in the Prime Movers archive, with 2 supporting highlights from primary source biographies. Linked to 29 strategic concepts.

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveInformation War Before Every Battle Operating PrincipleOpacity Through Entity Renaming Strategic PatternSell the Buyer His Own Money Strategic PatternBrand Prestige as Holding Company Currency Signature MoveSell at the Ceiling, Buy at the Crash Cornerstone MoveStack the Cascade, Keep 51% at Every Floor Cornerstone MoveBuy the Wreckage, Extract the Jewels Cornerstone MoveTurn Every Ally Into a Stepping Stone Signature MovePersonal Enrichment Through Internal Transfers Risk DoctrineCrash as Invitation, Not Crisis Signature MoveVictory Without Mercy, Then Make Them Pay Capital StrategyGovernment Subsidies as Launch Fuel Relationship LeverageGratitude Is a Disease of Dogs Competitive AdvantageProducer-to-Consumer Margin Capture Capital StrategyStock Options as Majority Shareholder Self-Enrichment Identity & CultureGrandmother's Cult of Superiority Signature MoveSilence the Dissent, Control the Narrative Decision FrameworkCreditor Coercion by Liquidation Threat Signature MoveDecentralized Goal Ownership Capital StrategyInternal Cashflow as Expansion Fuel Operating PrincipleRemove Rivals with Ironclad Exits Signature MoveModern Management Invasion Operating PrincipleDecentralize but Demand Results Signature MoveTough Negotiation as Ritual Signature MoveFinancial Engineering as Core Skill Cornerstone MoveDistressed Asset Empire-Building Cornerstone MoveNon-Core Asset Liquidation Blitz Strategic PatternBuy Low in Structural Chaos Cornerstone MoveBoardroom Power Consolidation by Stealth

Primary Evidence

"If Bernard Arnault has any questions, he doesn't show it. In February 1985, he sold a factory of 140 people in Fécamp that produces women's ready-to-wear under the designer Ted Lapidus's license to the trio Benattar-Saban-Delanoë. The buyers create, for the occasion, a new company, the Union Textile de Normandie (UTN). They still pay on credit and receive 2.8 million francs in aid from Boussac; that is 20,000 francs per employee."

Source:l'Ange Exterminateur

"Far from the paneling of Avenue Montaigne, in Wambrechies, the next day, a meeting of the central company committee takes place. The agenda is spicy: proposal for job cuts and divestments of activities. The meeting is particularly stormy. The unions and the staff representatives cry out against the dismantling of the group. The divestments concern the tailoring unit of Le Pigeon Voyageur in Béthune, the tarpaulin and ropemaking activities of Saint Frères in Flixecourt, the Ted Lapidus tailoring factory in Fécamp, and the Raclet tents in Mamers. These divestments were already planned in the SADEF report and in René Mayer's three-year plan."

Source:The Crazy Epic of the Willot Brothers - From the Société Du Crêpe Willot to LVMH

Appears In Volumes

l'Ange ExterminateurAiry Routier The Crazy Epic of the Willot Brothers - From the Société Du Crêpe Willot to LVMHHervé Maupin