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Litton

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Signature MoveSnapping Turtle Reports Only
Identity & CultureTotal Immersion or Termination
Operating PrincipleFacts-Only Intelligence System
Cornerstone MoveBet Every Side Then Claim Victim Status
Signature MovePersonnel Surgery as Perpetual Discipline Machine
Cornerstone MoveBuy a Congressman, Win the Antitrust War
Competitive AdvantageBigness as Defended Right
Risk DoctrineWar Profiteering Disguised as Victimhood
Signature MoveNo Vietnam Surprises Allowed
Cornerstone MoveSteal GM's Playbook Wholesale
Signature MoveColonial Empire Run by Bailing Wire
Strategic PatternGrowth Companies in Disguise
Decision FrameworkHistory Over Accounting as Foundation
Capital StrategyLearn-Earn-Return Lifecycle of Capital
Cornerstone MoveCompounding Requires Never Spending the Capital
Risk DoctrinePanic-Proof Through Private Valuation
Decision FrameworkCheap Stocks Deserve Their Price Until Proven Otherwise
Signature MoveShelby Jr: Small-Cap Contrarian After Bear Markets
Cornerstone MoveCrisis Creates Opportunity: Buy When Blood Runs
Signature MoveShelby Cullom Davis: Dowager's Living Room Portfolio
Cornerstone MoveOwn the Money Business, Never the Factory
Cornerstone MoveDavis Double Play: Earnings Growth Plus Multiple Expansion
Risk DoctrineEmerging Market Enthusiasm as Charitable Donation
Signature MoveDavis Sr: Margin as Focus Fuel Not Just Leverage
Signature MoveDavis Sr: Silver Bullet Competitor Question
Decision FrameworkFacts Then Decision Then Action — No Faltering
Capital StrategyPlow Cash Back Into Acreage
Strategic PatternCapability as the Product
Signature MoveWindows of the Mind Not Product Lists
Relationship LeverageNegotiate From Their Chair First
Decision FrameworkSmall Solution Scaled to Big Problem
Cornerstone MoveOne Building Block Then Mosaic Outward
Cornerstone MoveStock From His Own Hide to Hook the Best Fish
Signature MoveOutwork Them Past Midnight
Signature MoveLet Fresh Ideas Prove Themselves Before Shooting
Operating PrincipleFifty-Foot Rope for Thirty-Foot Drowning
Signature MoveGrab Authority or Lose It

Primary Evidence

"Litton and LTV."

Source:Tales of ITT - an Insider's Report

"ITT, Litton, and Ling-Temco-Vought"

Source:The Davis Dynasty

"But his favorite window opened on a vista of intangibles rather than things. How could the new technologies at Lit- ton's disposal contribute to the drastic improvement of existing practices in education, in health, in office routines throughout industry, in the storing and ready retrieval of knowledge, and in the mounting crisis of employment—of preparing the presumably unemployable for jobs? How could Litton pioneer a role of world citizen—and play an active economic part in the destinies of other countries, rather than merely buying from and selling to them? Why wouldn't it be a good idea for Litton to make its expertise in planning and finance available, on a partnership basis, to any country that sought help? *"

Source:Someone Has to Make It Happen; The Inside Story of Tex Thornton, the Man Who Built Litton Industries

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