About the book
Alfred Sloan's memoir of his years at General Motors doubles as a record of how the company built its management policies. Drawing on half a century of leadership inside a giant industry, Sloan traces the early innovations and the strategic ideas behind the company's approach to planning, stabilization, financial growth and leadership, and gives an insider's view of dramatic events along the way. Managers have long used it as a working manual, a practical look at management treated as a discipline. It became a best seller soon after its release in 1963, and Business Week later placed it first on its shelf of recommended business reading.
Ben Horowitz found it very interesting, particularly on the problems of scale. How to Web co-founder Bogdan Iordache calls it the one business book to read for understanding today's corporate world.
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This book has 2 recommendations
Bogdan Iordache (Co-Founder/How to Web)
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.
Ben Horowitz (Co-founder/Andreessen Horowitz)
My Years at GM by Alfred Sloan was very interesting particularly on scale issues.
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