My Years with General Motors
by Alfred Sloan
Should I read this?
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Management, Most Recommended Books, and Management.
My Years with General Motors became an instant bestseller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tella distillation of half a century of intimate le...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Management, Most Recommended Books, and Management.
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Ben Horowitz
“In the category of management, I haven't found that many to be useful, but My Years at GM by Alfred Sloan was very interesting particularly on scale issues”
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