An edition of My years with General Motors (1963)

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An edition of My years with General Motors (1963)

My years with General Motors

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My Years with General Motors 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)

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Doubleday
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English

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My years with General Motors
1990, Doubleday/Currency
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Cover of: My years with General Motors.
My years with General Motors.
1964, Doubleday
in English - [1st ed.]
Cover of: My years with General Motors
My years with General Motors
1964, Doubleday
in English
Cover of: My years with General Motors

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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."

Table of Contents

Part One
1 The Great Opportunity - I, 3
2 The Great Opportunity - II, 17
3 Concept of the Organization, 42
4 Prodeuct Policy and its Origins, 58
5 The "Copper-Cooled" Engine, 71
6 Stabilization, 95
7 Co-ordination by Committee, 99
8 The Development of Financial Controls, 116
9 Transformation of the Automobile Market, 149
10 Policy Creation, 169
11 Financial Growth, 191
Part Two
12 Evolution of the Automobile, 219
13 The Annual Model Change, 238
14 The Technical Staffs, 248
15 Styling, 264
16 Distribution and the Dealers, 279
17 GMAC, 302
18 The Coporation Overseas, 313
19 Nonautomotive: Diesel Electric Locomotives, Appliances, Aviation, 340
20 Contributions to National Defense, 375
21 Personnel and Labor Relations, 390
22 Incentive Compensation, 407
23 The Management: How it Works, 429
24 Change and Progress, 436
Index, 459

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Library of Congress
64-11306

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OL20124011M

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