Automotive
Capital-intensive, cyclical, unionised manufacturing whose repeated near-death experiences produced a deep management and industrial literature.
12 books
Start here
- My Years with General MotorsAlfred P. Sloan Jr., 1963
- The Machine That Changed the WorldJames P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos, 1990
Books 12
Alfred P. Sloan Jr. · 1963 · Insider account by GM's own chief executive; the founding text of divisional management.
James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos · 1990 · MIT study that introduced lean production to a Western audience.
Lee Iacocca, William Novak · 1984 · Insider memoir of the Ford firing and the Chrysler bailout.
David Halberstam · 1986 · Ford versus Nissan as a parable of American industrial decline.
Harvey S. Firestone, Samuel Crowther · 2003 · Founder's account of building Firestone; business sense from the tyre trade
T3 Crash Course
Paul Ingrassia · 2010 · Detroit's road to the 2009 bankruptcies.
Bob Lutz · 2011 · Insider argument that finance culture hollowed out GM's product.
Paul Ingrassia · 2012