Alfred PSloan Jr was CEO of General Motors from 1923 to 1946 This book was originally published in 1964 Sloan is seen as the first person to have worked out systematic organization in a big company planning and strategy measurements the principle of decentralization in short basic concepts of a discipline of management This is a difficult book to review since it is more a historic piece on GM's history and development from Sloan's perspective than an autobiography It does not discuss the individual Alfred PSloan Jr it discusses Alfred PSloan Jr as professional manager The chapters also come across as business school lessons in different subjects ranging from general management through to accounting marketing and compensation strategies The book consists of two parts Part One is an integrated continuous story of the main lines of General Motors' progress involving the origin and development of the corporation's basic management concepts in the