My Years With General Motors.

SLOAN JR., Alfred P.

Item Number: 2809

New York: Doubleday & Company, 1964.

First edition, later printing without mention of first edition or later printing. Octavo, original blue cloth. Inscribed by the author on the half title page, “For Lucille and Franklin A Park Jr.  with my best regards Alfred P. Sloan Jr. New York July 9, 1964.” Near fine in a very good jacket with some toning to the spine and extremities. Uncommon signed and inscribed.

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.