My Years With General Motors.

SLOAN JR., Alfred P.

$850.00

Item Number: 136414

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition of Sloan’s influential work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Alfred P. Sloan Jr. on an bookplate to the front free endpaper. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Lawrence Ratzkin. Edited by John McDonald with Catherine Stevens. First editions are uncommon.

Only a handful of business books have reached the status of a classic, having withstood the test of over thirty years' time. Even today, Bill Gates praises it is the best book to read on business, and Business Week has named it the number one choice for its "bookshelf of indispensable reading." My Years With General Motors became an instant bestseller 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.