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My Years with General Motors

By: Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
Narrated by: David Colacci
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My Years with General Motors became an instant best seller 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 more than 50 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".
©1963; 1990 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Introduction copyright by Peter F. Drucker (P)2019 HighBridge Company
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Not just for admin inspo

I found two aspects of this book rather inspirational:

The first is the effect of policy changes in salvaging the corporation and leading to its impressive growth. I find it very interesting that (what might seem) such slight changes in process, communication structures, incentives and responsibility placements can have such outsized effects on results.

The second is by the history of the automation industry development from an engineering perspective (as an engineer). I loved learning how new the engine and car fabrication technology space "felt" by those going through it, and seeing the mad rush to both discover and refine the latest developments. I felt It mirrors the mad scrambles seen in software after new major advancements.

Ps, I skipped sections in the incentives/financial sections where larger numbers were constantly being read out to me that i realised were not teaching me anything useful 😅

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