(Lean Enterprise Institute: Cambridge, Massachusetts) -- The classic management book The Machine That Changed the World (Free Press, 2007), which was recently reissued in paperback, has been named to an executive reading list compiled by The New York Times.

The newspaper described the “Executive Choices” list as a “short list of essentials from some of the most influential men and women in auto design, manufacturing, racing, and sales.” Alan Mulally, president and chief executive of Ford Motor Co., selected Machine for the list.

After nearly two decades on the market, Machine has become a management classic, taking its place as the third book in a historical sequence beginning with Peter Drucker’s Concept of the Corporation (first published in 1946; reprinted by Transaction Publishers in 1993), which first summarized the mass production business model, and continuing with Alfred Sloan’s My Years with General Motors (first published in 1965; reprinted by Currency in 1990).

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