No Business as Usual; The Game Has Changed Companies that emerge from this crisis with solid finances, a resilient supply chain, skilled workers and the capacity to analyse data will be well-placed to seize new opportunities Illustration by Raj Verma Among the few books that are interesting and inspirational, Alfred Sloan's My Years with General Motors lays out his brilliant managerial practices and provides insights into the new consumer economy that he and General Motors created over half a century ago. An entire era has gone by since, and we find ourselves in a situation that is uncannily similar to all great crises. And his words uttered in 1941 hold so true even today - "It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance."