An Autobiography
by Lee Iacocca
Recommended by Ramit Sethi and Shankar Sharma
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Plainspoken, anecdote-rich memoir that reads like an executive giving a long interview; the value is in behind-the-scenes scenes of car launches, boardroom fights, and the publicity machinery that followed his Chrysler rescue. Most useful as a first-person account of managerial choices, publicity, and crisis leadership; you'll get concrete stories about product decisions, negotiations, and public relations moves. Limitation: partisan tone—occasional self-justification, repetitive name-dropping, and a tendency to simplify complex failures into personality clashes. Better for readers after colourful inside stories than for those wanting systematic analysis or exercises.
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He's an American legend, a straightshooting businessman who brought Chrysler back from the brink and in the process became a media celebrity, newsmaker, and a man many had urged to run for president.The son of Italian immigrants, Lee Iacocca rose spectacularly through the ranks of Ford Motor Company to become its president, only to be toppled eigh...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Business, and Nonfiction.
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