My Years with General Motors

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Recommended by Ben Horowitz, Steve Blank, Bogdan Iordache, and 3 others. See all reviews

Ranked #88 in Automotive, Ranked #95 in Business Biography

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.

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Ben Horowitz Co-founder/Andreessen HorowitzMy Years at GM by Alfred Sloan was very interesting particularly on scale issues. (Source)

Steve Blank Recommends this book

Bogdan Iordache If you have to read just one business book to understand the global corporate world we live in today, I think this is it. And I think Bill Gates said this first. Alfred P. Sloan was the CEO of General Motors in its early beginnings, and he went through all the stages of the growth, going bust, growth and then consolidation of the beginning (when some companies were creating mechanical horses - no kidding) to the '60s, when he retired. (Source)

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