Alfred Sloan
My Years with General Motors
Издательство: Broadway Business, 1990 г.
0385042353
Книгопечатная продукция
Объем: 496 стр.
Alfred P.Sloan Jr. was CEO of General Motors from 1923 to 1946. This book was originally published in 1964. Sloan is seen as the first person to have worked out systematic organization in a big company, planning and strategy, measurements, the principle of decentralization - in short, basic concepts of a discipline of management. This is a difficult book to review, since it is more a historic piece on GM`s history and development from Sloan`s perspective than an autobiography. It does not discuss the individual Alfred P.Sloan Jr., it discusses Alfred P.Sloan Jr. as professional manager. The chapters also come across as business school lessons in different subjects, ranging from general management through to accounting, marketing and compensation strategies.
The book consists of two parts.
Part One is an integrated continuous story of the main lines of General Motors` progress, involving the origin and development of the corporation`s basic management concepts in the areas of organization, finance and product. It discusses the extreme growth and development of the automobile industry from the early 1900s through to the early 1960s. It also discusses the methods General Motors introduced used to manage the corporation (Sloan all through the book keeps emphasizing the concept of the corporation). He later became known as a committee-man, because he used different types of committees to get/keep various divisions talking and working with each other.
Part Two consists of individually distinct sections dealing in some detail with engineering, distribution, overseas operations, war and defense products, incentive compensation, and other aspects and branches of the enterprise. This part of the book discusses in greater detail the different experiences and events during Sloan`s reign as CEO. It discusses some very interesting subjects, such as the evolution of the automobile, relationships with dealers, World War I and II efforts, and personnel and labor relations. Chapter 23 and 24 are really the conclusion to this book.
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