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  • Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

    The Battle for the Soul of American Business

    by Bob Lutz ...
    A legend in the car industry reveals the philosophy that's starting to turn General Motors around.In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. He launched a war against penny pinching, office politics, turf wars, and risk avoidance. After declaring bankruptcy during the recession of 2008, GM is back on track thanks to its ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Icons and Idiots

    Straight Talk on Leadership

    by Bob Lutz ...
    When Bob Lutz retired from General Motors in 2010, after an unparalleled forty-seven-year career in the auto industry, he was one of the most respected leaders in American business. He had survived all kinds of managers over those decades: tough and timid, analytical and irrational, charismatic and antisocial, and some who seemed to shift frequently among all those traits. His experiences made him ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO

    Every Model Since 1964

    by Tom Glatch ...
    Series series Complete Book Series
    The Complete Book of Pontiac GTO gives you a year-by-year, model-by-model exploration of the world's first muscle car, all in full color photography, most of which has never been published.When Pontiac created the original muscle car—the GTO—it reshaped the automotive world like a four-inch piston going through a three-inch cylinder bore.Everything changed the moment John Zachery DeLorean and his ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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    Car Guys vs. Bean Counters

    The Battle for the Soul of American Business

    by Bob Lutz ...
    Narrated by Norman Dietz ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 24 min

    In 2001, General Motors hired Bob Lutz out of retirement with a mandate to save the company by making great cars again. He launched a war against penny pinching, office politics, turf wars, and risk avoidance. After declaring bankruptcy during the recession of 2008, GM is back on track thanks to its embrace of Lutz's philosophy.When Lutz got into the auto business in the early sixties, CEOs knew ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Icons and Idiots

    Straight Talk on Leadership

    by Bob Lutz ...
    Narrated by Wes Talbot ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 21 min

    “Most successful leaders are mentally and emotionally askew. There’s a good side, which gets the job done. There’s often also a downside that makes them hard to understand or difficult to work for. It’s precisely that they are impatient, stubborn, opinionated, unsatisfied, and domineering that makes them successful.”When Bob Lutz retired from General Motors in 2010, after an unparalleled forty ... Read more

    $27.98 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    American Icon

    Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company

    by Bryce G. Hoffman ...
    Narrated by Pete Larkin ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 46 min

    At the end of 2008, Ford Motor Company was just months away from running out of cash. With the auto industry careening toward ruin, Congress offered all three Detroit automakers a bailout. General Motors and Chrysler grabbed the taxpayer lifeline, but Ford decided to save itself. Under the leadership of charismatic CEO Alan Mulally, Ford had already put together a bold plan to unify its divided ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Crash Course

    The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster

    by Paul Ingrassia ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 19 min

    This is the epic saga of the American automobile industry's rise and demise, a compelling story of hubris, denial, missed opportunities, and self-inflicted wounds that culminates with the president of the United States ushering two of Detroit's Big Three car companies—once proud symbols of prosperity—through bankruptcy. The cost to American taxpayers topped $100 billion—enough to buy every car and ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Lost Bank

    The Story of Washington Mutual—the Biggest Bank Failure in American History

    by Kirsten Grind ...
    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 8 min

    During the most dizzying days of the financial crisis, Washington Mutual, a bank with hundreds of billions of dollars in its coffers, suffered a crippling bank run. The story of its final, brutal collapse in the autumn of 2008, and its controversial sale to JPMorgan Chase, is an astonishing account of how one bank lost itself to greed and mismanagement and how the entire financial industry—and ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Engines of Change

    A History of the American Dream in Fifteen Cars

    by Paul Ingrassia ...
    Narrated by Sean Runnette ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    America was made manifest by its cars. From the assembly lines of Henry Ford to the open roads of Route 66 and Jack Kerouac, America's history is a vehicular history—an idea brought brilliantly to life in this major work by the acclaimed author of Crash Course: The American Automobile Industry's Road from Glory to Disaster.One of the nation's most eloquent and impassioned car nuts, Paul Ingrassia ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Taken for a Ride

    How Daimler-Benz Drove Off with Chrysler

    by Bill Vlasic, Bradley A. Stertz ...
    In May 1998, a stunning $36 billion merger was announced by Chrysler, the all-American automaker, and Daimler-Benz, the German manufacturer of Mercedes-Benz luxury sedans. This corporate marriage promised to rock the global auto industry, but when the dust settled, Daimler had bought Chrysler, and an American icon had lost its independence. Taken for a Ride follows the twists and turns on the road ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Road Well Traveled: Profiles Of America's Great Automobile Pioneers

    by Daniel Alef ...
    The great American automotive pioneers were entrepreneurial inventors and visionaries who changed the American landscape and brought us a new national culture. These pioneers lifted the veil of isolation that enveloped most pre-twentieth century Americans and made it possible for the average person to travel whenever and wherever he or she pleased. Automobiles changed the concept of transportation ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Walter Chrysler: Doctor Of Sick Automobile Companies

    by Daniel Alef ...
    Biographical profile of one of America's iconic automobile pioneers, Walter Chrysler, a man Time magazine described as a "doctor of sick automobile companies." The Chrysler Building in New York, topped by its world-famous art deco tower, an enduring symbol of America's industrial evolution, is also a standing tribute to its namesake. Walter Chrysler was a monumental pioneer in the automobile ... Read more

    $1.99 USD