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My Years with General Motors

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)

Audience
adult
Length
long · 496 pages

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