Chairman, president, and chief executive officer, Eaton Corporation
Cutler began his career in 1975 as a financial analyst with Cutler-Hammer.
American
Yale University, BA, 1973; Dartmouth College, MBA, 1975.
"Eaton plays for keeps--if it can't win, it doesn't play," a philosophy clearly evident in Cutler's management style.
Cutler stressed the importance of teamwork among design engineers and the need for those engineers to get out of the lab, into the marketplace, and around customers.
John M. Cutler has written: 'John Cutler & his descendants' -- subject(s): Family
Eaton University was launched shortly after Cutler's rise to chairman and CEO. It began as an instructor-based management-training program but soon became an e-learning facility
Cutler commented that the most important factor was communication, which meant moving away from the traditional management style and becoming "a facilitator, a coach, a communicator, whatever word you want to use"
Michael M. Cutler has written: 'Great hockey masks =' -- subject(s): Hockey masks, Masks, Pictorial works
Between 2001 and 2002, Eaton closed 34 factories and slashed 12,000 jobs.
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president, chairman, and chief executive officer of the company that had become the second-largest manufacturer of hydraulic equipment and the largest maker of truck transmissions in the United States