"My Years with General Motors," by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr, Doubleday, NY, 1963, with introduction by Peter Drucker, 1990. Sloan was President/CEO/Chairman of the Board of General Motors from 1923 to 1956. He created the systems and organization that made GM a great corporation. That organization was studied as the model for large corporations for decades. The book also provides a look into the history of GM and its various strategies. General Motors was created by William C. Durant in 1908. Beginning with... more info
The Reason General Motors Was Once Dominant...:
"A car for every purse and purpose". This was the reason that GM was once the world's most successful company. Alfred Sloan succintly details how he directed the company to take not only financial considerations, but also product planning into account. His hierachy of models, ie Chevrolet, Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick, and Cadillac, in that order, was stroke of genius, virutally guaranteeing that the entry level buyer who started out with an economical Chevy would continue to buy more expensive GM brands as... more info
My Years With General Motors:
Must reading for all business owners, executives, college business majors and not just in the automotive or related fields on how a stuff shirt
could set a management control system up that was from its start up over bearing, self serving, cause different levels of management to establish surfs and kingdoms making it not only impossible to settle operational differences in a smooth transaction between production and marketing, but in fact Impossible! Even worst he was able to sell his concept of... more info
Sloan and the old GM:
An incredible man! We need more like him to throttle the huge corporations and return us to making America prosper. Keep your dollars in the USA!
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