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The book is: Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business.
Dan Kennedy • No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits: No Holds Barred, Kick Butt, Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Really Getting Rich
Peter Norton • When Cities Treated Cars as Dangerous Intruders
IAA would show up wearing suits and riding in limos. I showed up wearing cowboy boots and driving a rental car. Some owners were wooed by the flash of IAA. Some were put off by it. For other owners, it came down to the bottom line—who would pay more? I had the advantage there. IAA bought companies the Wall Street way—based on pretax or after-tax ea
... See moreWillis Johnson • Junk to Gold: From Salvage to the World’S Largest Online Auto Auction
This policy, I believe, was new in the industry when we began it. It reflected our desire to protect dealers against unreasonable product-depreciation losses and to place the responsibility for reasonable production schedules in the later months of the model year on the management of the divisions. It imposed a penalty on the factory in the form of
... See moreAlfred P Sloan Jr. • My Years With General Motors
For the unprepared, meeting John Neff can be a "disaster." Those who meet Neff's standards appreciate thatJohn answers his own phone ("Neff!"), and he always gives as good as he gets, or better, in both information and insight. Neff's rigorous discipline in "doing his homework" has one important consequence: His portfo
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