My Years with General Motors

Archive

https://archive.org/details/myyearswithgener0000unse/page/n26/mode/1up?view=theater

K3

• Limit number of direct reports to CEO to let CEO focus on broad policy
• Interdivision sales - cost plus. For OSE - cost is a fraction, so maybe value-share 50/50 on the benefit?

Chapter 1

• P17 -Duryea was the first consumer gasoline car company in the USA [1]
• Mr Durant could create but not administer

Intro

• A distinction should be made between expansion, and the organization needed to support it
• Sometimes need to build parts of org around some individuals?
• Design org to be objective, not subject to personalities
• No org is sounder than the men who run it
• Centralized in policy and decent is administration
• Intro p22 -Competition for survival as greatest incentive. Ie, getting your fucking ass kicked as an incentive? How about constructive incentives?

Amazon

https://www.amazon.com/product-reviews/0385042353/ref=cm_cr_dp_mb_top?

• Read some of the reviews to see if it's worth it
• First long review shows that book didn't cover production for the nazis in WW2. Details!
• Tanks were welded in a merry-go-round system that required learning only one simple weld rather than full scale training
• Great book on scarcity economics (competition) and Gayes' pick if you were to read only one biz book