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Founders Notes: Sloan My Years Gm

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My Years With General Motors Alfred P Sloan Jr. My impressions of all this after more than sixty-five years in and around the automobile industry — forty-five of them in General Motors proper — are the basis of this book. (Location 165) General Motors and the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, (Location 177) have been almost the sole interests of my business life. (Location 179) Consider, for example, that survival in the automobile industry in the United States has depended upon winning the favor of buyers of new cars each year. Part and parcel of this is the annual model, the spur to which the organization must respond or die. The urge to satisfy this requirement is the dynamism of General Motors. Many things regarding the progress of the enterprise and the industry fall into place through an understanding of the annual model — its origin and evolution, and the associated concept of upgrading cars, in which General Motors played a prominent role in contrast to the early Ford organization. (Location 195) I simply took the view that we should go at the job vigorously and without hampering restrictions. I put no ceiling on progress. (Location 217) If I have expressed or implied in this b

My Years With General Motors Alfred P Sloan Jr. My impressions of all this after more than sixty-five years in and around the automobile industry — forty-five of them in General Motors proper — are the basis of this book. (Location 165) General Motors and the Hyatt Roller Bearing Company, (Location 177) have been almost the sole interests of my business life. (Location 179) Consider, for example, that survival in the automobile industry in the United States has depended upon winning the favor of buyers of new cars each year. Part and parcel of this is the annual model, the spur to which…

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