My Years with General Motors
by Alfred P. Sloan Jr.
Sloan's account of inventing the modern corporation: decentralized divisions with central financial control, annual models, a car for every purse. Dry, dense and foundational; Bill Gates called it the best business book.
Read it if…
you want the origin of modern management structure from its architect.
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Skip it if…
you want readable; it is a document.
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Three things you will actually use
- Decentralize operations, centralize finance.
- Facts before opinions.
- Structure follows strategy.
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Read the chapters on the organization study of 1920.
Our verdict
The corporation's architect.
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