Businesses come and go. Even Fortune 500 companies get in trouble. There is at least one organization, however, that is setting a high bar for others. Do you know which one?

Let me pose these questions:
• What U.S. company is celebrating their centennial anniversary this year?
• What company is the largest exporter of its product and services globally, in terms of dollars, from the United States?
• What company was founded and managed by a single person during much of its initial years of development and growth?
• What company takes approximately five weeks to produce its flagship product, much of it assembled by tightly coordinated teams?
• What company’s primary manufacturing facility can accommodate five Empire State Buildings within its cavernous interior?

I’m guessing that you are mentally considering and eliminating choice after choice. Apple hasn’t been around that long. General Motors would soon be out of business if their throughput was one vehicle every five weeks. General Electric doesn’t require the same gargantuan footprint for a single assembly building.

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