Recommended by
- Ben Horowitz: "In the category of management, I haven't found that many to be useful, but My Years at GM by Alfred Sloan was very interesting particularly on scale issues." source ↗
Summary
Alfred P. Sloan's memoir of running General Motors from its fragmented assembly in the 1920s to the world's largest corporation. Sloan details the management innovations — decentralized operations with coordinated policy, professional management, and financial controls — that built the modern corporation.
For founders
For founders scaling a company, Sloan's account is the classic on organization design and management at scale. Ben Horowitz named it as one of the few genuinely useful management books, particularly on scale issues.