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- Product code: 0369
- ISBN: 0385042353,
ISBN13: 9780385042352,
468 pages, hardback
Published by USA Import on 1990
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Description of My Years with General Motors |
Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of overthirty 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 choicefor its "bookshelf of indespensable reading".
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 initmate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.
When Alfred P Sloan, Jr,. joinedGeneral Motors in 1918, the company was in crisis and its future in doubt. Today G.M. is among the largest industrial complexes in the world and a keystone of the American economy. My Years with General Motors describes the early innovations and development if the company's basic management policies and strategic concepts in such areas as planning and strategy, stabilization, financial growth, and leadership.
Draft your own blueprint for organizational success by using the tools found in this book. Learn the valuable lessons that only Sloan could teach.
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Reviews"I think Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors is probably the best book to read if you want to read only one book about business. The issues dealt with in organizing and measuring, in keeping happy, dealing with risk, understanding model years and the effect of used vehicles, and modelling his competition all ina very rational, positive way is inspiring."
- Bill Gates, Chairman of Microsoft
| Contents of My Years with General Motors |
My Years with General Motors is must reading
(Peter F Drucker)
Preface
Introduction
Part One
1. The Great Opportunity - I
2. The Great Opportunity - II
3. Concept of the Organization
4. Product Policy and it's Origins
5. The "Copper-Cooled" Engine
6. Stabilization
7. Co-ordination by Committee
8. The Development of Financial Controls
9. Transformation of the Automobile Market
10. Policy Creation
11. Financial Growth
Part Two
12. Evolution of the Automobile
13. The Annual Model Change
14. The Technical Staffs
15. Styling
16. Distribution and the Dealers
17. GMAC
18. The Corporation Overseas
19. Nonautomotive: Diesel Electric Locomotives, Appliances, Aviation
20. Contributions to National Defense
21. Personnel and Labour Relations
22. Incentive Compensation
23. The Management: How it Works
24. Change and Progress
Index
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