MY YEARS WITH GENERAL MOTORS: Must Reading

PETER DRUCKER'S introduction to the 1990 edition of MY YEARS:
"Why MY YEARS WITH GENERAL MOTORS is Must Reading"

"... perhaps the most important lesson -- the professional manager is a servant. Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility. One can argue with Sloan's postulates -- indeed, he very much wanted readers to argue with them: ''... otherwise they won't take them seriously,'' he once said when I raised the question. But those ideas are why Alfred Sloan wrote the book and why My Years With General Motors is 'must' reading."

JOHN MCCALLUM'S essay in the Ivey Business Journal:
"Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.: Must Reading for Executives"

"I unreservedly recommend it ... You cannot read My Years with General Motors and not be better for it; every time you read it, you will learn something new worth knowing about running a business ... there is genius in the clarity with which Sloan discusses what management controls and does not control. Every executive should pay heed. The market, technology, the progress of science, production techniques and customers are more or less a given open to all according to Sloan. What management controls first and foremost is the organization."