Meeting

Virtual Meeting: Lessons Learned With David Cote

Wednesday, June 24, 2020
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Speaker
David M. Cote

Executive Chairman, Vertiv Holdings; Author, Winning Now, Winning Later; Former CEO, Honeywell; Member, Board of Directors, Council on Foreign Relations

Presider
Andrew Ross Sorkin

Columnist and Editor at Large, New York Times; Co-Anchor, Squawk Box, CNBC; Author, Too Big to Fail: How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System — and Themselves

David Cote discusses the lessons he has learned during his career in business and leadership along with his new book on how companies can perform better in the short term while still planning for long term growth.

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