  When 52-year-old Mary Barra became the first woman ever to lead  a global automaker, only people outside of General Motors were  surprised. Barra had spent more than 30 years building her career  at GM, a company with $150 billion in sales and 200,000 employees  worldwide. She had done everything from working on the factory  floor, where she inspected sedans for manufacturing flaws, to  overseeing the design of cars; from improving relations with the  companys restive unions, to paring down the huge company's  bureaucracy and helping resuscitate it from bankruptcy. This book  will:    Describe Mary Barras life before GM  Showcase Barras willingness to take on diverse  assignments  Detail Barras management style and her ability to relate  to colleagues  Showcase the qualities and experiences Barra had that enabled  her to climb this male profession  Look at each stage in Barra's career and describe the lessons  she learned on the job    Road to Power will tell the story of how Barra, a  rare female electrical engineer and the daughter of a GM die maker,  became head of the company once described as a proxy for the U.S.  economy--arguably the most important position in business ever held  by a woman.

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Road to Power: How GM's Mary Barra Shattered the Glass Ceiling

2015

Wiley

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