Read all about it: Authors have plenty of advice for GM - Company's saga spawns a shelf of books - and lots of barbs

摘要

In its 100 years on the scene, General Motors has inspired a shelf of business books. And many of them have generated controversy. The granddaddy of them all - Concept of the Corporation, published by management guru Peter Drucker in 1946 - is a prime example. Drucker wrote the book after 18 months of unprecedented access to GM and to Chairman Alfred Sloan, starting in January 1943. Sloan helped invent centralized financial control over GM's many divisions and the ground-floor organization of GM's full-line hierarchy of brands, popularly known as "a car for every purse and purpose."