Reading rank 133
My Years with General Motors
, subject: Alfred Sloan's autobiography and management account of reorganizing and running General Motors, 1963
Alfred Sloan’s own account of General Motors treats the way a large industrial company is organized and managed as a matter of strategy.
104
Coverage Score
9
Scored evidence
About the book
Alfred Sloan's memoir of building General Motors' multi-divisional structure and management systems.
Why read it
Best if You want an operator’s own account of how a large industrial company was organized and managed, and how its management systems connect to strategy.
Key themes
- Organization as strategy
- A builder’s firsthand account
Evidence and original sources
Sources: official Founders episodes — #110, #121, #122, #147, #171, #208
This record is supported by 10 public evidence rows linked to original Founders episodes.
- Henry Singleton (Teledyne) — David refers to Sloan's General Motors book and a future episode; later Episode 122 and the canonical bibliography resolve the work as My Years with General Motors.
- Billy Durant and Alfred Sloan (General Motors) — The host previews a dedicated episode next week on Alfred Sloan's autobiography, My Years with General Motors.
- Alfred Sloan (General Motors) — The episode is centered on Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors, with the host drawing management and strategy lessons from it throughout.
- Sam Colt — David uses Sloan's management systems through the Sloan-to-Singleton-to-Buffett lineage to connect industrial organization with later company builders.
- Chuck Feeney (The Billionaire who gave all of his money away) — David says he read My Years with General Motors and identifies it as Founders episode 122.
- Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Andy Grove, Bill Hewlett — David calls My Years with General Motors one of the most influential books in American business management.