My years with General Motors
By: edited by John McDonald and Catharine Stevens.
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1964
Place of publication: Garden City
Language: eng
Subjects: General Motors Corporation.
First sentence: Two events occurred in 1908 that were to be of lasting significance in the progress of the automobile industry: William C. Durant, working from his base in the Buick Motor Company, formed the General Motors Company-predecessor of the present General Motors Corporation-and Henry Ford announced the Model T.
Description: <i>My Years with General Motors</i> describes the early innovations and development of the company's basic management policies and strategic concepts in such areas as planning and strategy, stabilization, financial growth, and leadership. Offering personal glimpses into the "discipline of management" by the man who perfected it, the book distills half a century of leadership experience in a giant industry and provides an inside look at dramatic events and creative business management. (From publisher's copy)
Table of contents: title: Part One; title: 1 The Great Opportunity - I, 3; title: 2 The Great Opportunity - II, 17; title: 3 Concept of the Organization, 42; title: 4 Prodeuct Policy and its Origins, 58; title: 5 The "Copper-Cooled" Engine, 71; title: 6 Stabilization, 95; title: 7 Co-ordination by Committee, 99; title: 8 The Development of Financial Controls, 116; title: 9 Transformation of the Automobile Market, 149; title: 10 Policy Creation, 169; title: 11 Financial Growth, 191; title: Part Two; title: 12 Evolution of the Automobile, 219; title: 13 The Annual Model Change, 238; title: 14 The Technical Staffs, 248; title: 15 Styling, 264; title: 16 Distribution and the Dealers, 279; title: 17 GMAC, 302; title: 18 The Coporation Overseas, 313; title: 19 Nonautomotive: Diesel Electric Locomotives, Appliances, Aviation, 340; title: 20 Contributions to National Defense, 375; title: 21 Personnel and Labor Relations, 390; title: 22 Incentive Compensation, 407; title: 23 The Management: How it Works, 429; title: 24 Change and Progress, 436; title: Index, 459