Iacocca

“If I had to sum up the qualities that make a good manager, I’d say it all comes down to decisiveness…you have to take information and act.”

Iacocca is a classic business autobiography and it ranks as one of my favorites. Lee Iacocca was the president at Ford in the 1970s and led the turnaround at Chrysler in the early 80s. He is the father of the Mustang, the Pinto and the Minivan. Iacocca famously clashed with Henry Ford II and the book relates this narrative (Ford was certainly a tyrant). This book was published in the mid-eighties and relates stories from the sixties so the executive suites are cigar-filled and white-male-dominated and the attitudes are dated by todays standards. That aside, Iacocca is a great storyteller and this was an engaging read.