My Years with General Motors

By: Alfred P. Sloan Jr.

Narrated by: David Colacci

My Years with General Motors became an instant best seller when it was first published in 1963. It has since been used as a manual for managers, offering personal glimpses into the practice of the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it. This is the story no other businessman could tell - a distillation of half a century of intimate leadership experience with a giant industry and an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management.

Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of more than 50 years' time. Even today, Bill Gates praises My Years with General Motors as the best book to read on business, and Business Week has named it the number one choice for its "bookshelf of indispensable reading".

©1963; 1990 Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.; Introduction copyright by Peter F. Drucker (P)2019 HighBridge Company

I wish I read this book before I decided to not get my MBA

Outstanding. After 4O years in the “corporate world” this book threads everything together. Read this Book!

Very insightful

It is a great look behind the scenes of General Motors from the beginning and how what they did lead the industry to where it is today

Classic management book and historical insights into the formation of the auto industry.

Sloan is a great writer and provides valuable insights into the formation of the ziti industry and GM. Hard to believe but GM sold more cars in the US in 1920 than Tesla did using robotics in 2020, 100 years later. If you’ve never heard of Charles Kettering you will live his genius as told by Sloan.

Great history of the US auto industry

I’d heard this was an important book on management. I found that to be true. So many examples of innovating in an unknown field; I never even thought about the issues he faced...most challenges he faced are things we’ve long taken for granted. Some chapters were a little dry and I sympathized with the narrator at times. But overall a good book that will make you think about the field of organizational management and force you to ask yourself, “What would I have done?”

Tough reading, scattered insights

Book with a lot of lessons spanning an incredible period of industrialism. The semi autobiographical format makes the volume hard to swallow but after digesting some details, there's much to be gained in terms of understanding the GM management model.