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My Years with General Motors: How to Delegate at Scale (Alfred P. Sloan Jr.)
Most leaders feel trapped between two bad options: micromanage every detail until your team burns out, or hand over total freedom and watch projects collapse. In My Years with General Motors, legendary CEO Alfred P. Sloan Jr. proved this binary is a myth. When GM was on the brink of collapse in 1920, Sloan did not centralize power like Henry Ford. Instead, he pioneered decentralized operations with coordinated control. He granted division leaders complete operational autonomy while holding them strictly accountable to objective Return on Investment scorecards. The lesson for modern managers…
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