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GM: Lessons from the Alfred Sloan Era
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The need for adequate disagreement for the right decision to emerge. That was one of the tenets of Alfred Sloan. Not letting dissent appear or having precooked decision is arecipe for disaster as GM discovered recently.But it was the Sloan Gm that set the rule on this and it is the ultimate irony that it disappeared at GM years and decades later.
A company as a team concept between younger, middle, and upper management.
05/29/2009
A company as much much more than CEO run operations. A rare CEO may make this possible but for most companies even with a rare CEO, its best run as a teamwork between all levels and ages of management with the CEO listening in to all voices. This was a cardinal rule for Alfred Sloan at GM.
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