My Years With General Motors

Name: My Years With General Motors
Brand: HighBridge Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
ISBN: 9781684413492

Author: Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Narrator: David Colacci

Unabridged: 21 hr 1 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Highbridge Audio

Published: 03/19/2019

Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics

Synopsis

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 tell—a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.

Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of over fifty years' time. Even today, Bill Gates praises My Years with General Motors as the best book to read on business, and Business Week has named it the number one choice for its "bookshelf of indispensable reading."

About Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.

Alfred P. Sloan, Jr. (1875-1966) was an innovative leader of General Motors during the early twentieth century and served as the company's CEO and president. He oversaw such automotive advancements as four-wheel brakes and ethyl gasoline. In 1963 he wrote My Years with General Motors, a memoir about his experience at the helm of the automotive company.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tara on December 21, 2015

Over 50 years since its initial publication, this books still stands as one of the greatest business management classics. Written in a practical, matter-of-fact way, Sloan does not deliver a business how-to or a doctrine to follow, he simply explains the how and the why of various business decisions......more

Goodreads review by Omar on March 30, 2013

This is a true business classic. In this book Alfred Sloan shares his years of wisdom - while heading General Motors - in a variety of areas including planning, strategy, finance, leadership, innovation and management. Alfred was a true pioneer of his time in building the discipline of management an......more

Goodreads review by Denis on April 05, 2018

Классика менеджмента, СЕО General Motors об управлении корпорацией......more

Goodreads review by Jay on March 29, 2019

I read “My Years at General Motors” when I was in college, roughly 32 years ago. My interest at the time was in reading a piece of business history, and I find I still recall a number of topics covered in the book. I can’t say that for many books I read so many decades back. I think that what struck......more