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Books like My Years with General Motors
The best books like My Years with General Motors are High Output Management, Good to Great, and The Effective Executive. My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan is about management, corporate strategy, organizational design. If that's what drew you in, here are 12 books that share its DNA — each summarized on Superbook, and ready to chat with in the app.
- High Output Management
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Andrew S. Grove · Business
High Output Management is Andrew Grove's manual for how managers at any level should think about their work.
Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Good to Great
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Jim Collins · Business
Good to Great is Jim Collins's attempt to answer a deceptively simple question: why do some good companies make the leap to sustained greatness while most don't?
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - The Effective Executive
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Peter F. Drucker · Business
The Effective Executive is Peter Drucker's 1967 argument that effectiveness — getting the right things done — is a discipline that can be learned, and that it is the most important capability a knowledge worker can develop.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras · Business
Built to Last is Jim Collins and Jerry Porras's six-year research project into what separates companies that endure for decades from those that simply perform well for a season.
Both dig into leadership.
Read the summary → - Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity
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Frank Slootman · Business
Amp It Up is Frank Slootman's account of how he approaches leading organizations through rapid growth.
Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Brave New Work
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Aaron Dignan · Business
Brave New Work is Aaron Dignan's diagnosis of why most organizations are dysfunctional and a practical guide to building something better.
Shares organizational design and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
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Empowered: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products
Marty Cagan and Chris Jones · Business
Empowered is Marty Cagan and Chris Jones's guide to what separates product organizations that consistently build products people love from those that operate as feature factories.
Shares organizational design and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Good Authority
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Jonathan Raymond · Business
Good Authority is Jonathan Raymond's argument that the real job of a manager is not to produce results directly but to use the work as a vehicle for people's personal and professional development.
Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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Richard Rumelt · Business
Good Strategy Bad Strategy is Richard Rumelt's indictment of the strategic planning process as it is practiced in most organizations, and his articulation of what genuine strategy actually requires.
Shares organizational design and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - High Growth Handbook
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Elad Gil · Business
High Growth Handbook is Elad Gil's guide to the operational and organizational challenges that arise once a startup has found product-market fit and needs to scale from dozens of employees to hundreds or thousands.
Shares organizational design and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
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It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson · Business
It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work is a direct challenge to the mythology of startup hustle — the idea that long hours, constant urgency, and full-company stress are signs of ambition rather than poor management.
Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
Read the summary → - Leading
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Alex Ferguson & Michael Moritz · Business
Leading is Sir Alex Ferguson's account of what he learned managing Manchester United for twenty-seven years, written with Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz.
Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors.
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Books like My Years with General Motors: quick answers
What are the best books like My Years with General Motors?
The best books like My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan are High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, plus 7 more below. Each was chosen for themes it shares with My Years with General Motors, such as management, corporate strategy, organizational design.
What should I read after My Years with General Motors?
A natural next read after My Years with General Motors is High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove. Shares management and leadership with My Years with General Motors. Other strong choices are Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras.
What books are similar to My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan?
My Years with General Motors centers on management, corporate strategy, organizational design. Books with a similar feel include High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove, Good to Great by Jim Collins, The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker, Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras, Amp It Up: Leading for Hypergrowth by Raising Expectations, Increasing Urgency, and Elevating Intensity by Frank Slootman, Brave New Work by Aaron Dignan — all free to read and chat with on Superbook.
