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My Years with General Motors |
by: Alfred Sloan
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 338.762920973
EAN: 9780385042352
ISBN: 0385042353
Label: Broadway Books
Manufacturer: Broadway Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: October 01, 1990
Publisher: Broadway Books
Release Date: October 01, 1990
Studio: Broadway Books
Alternate Versions:
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- Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > Biography & History > Company Profiles
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- Books > Subjects > Business & Investing > General AAS
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- My favorite business book of all timeThis has to be the best business book of all time and it just so happens to also cover my favorite past time of collecting classic GM cars. This book is as important today as it was when first written. One can guess that the top executives of the auto industry haven't read this book, because if they did they probably wouldn't be in mess they are in today. I recommend this book to everyone.
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- A look inside General Motors"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.
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- 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 ... Read More
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- My Years With General MotorsMust 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 ... Read More
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- Sloan and the old GMAn 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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