The Wal Mart Way

Author : Don Soderquist
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781418514013

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The Wal-Mart Way by Don Soderquist Pdf

Since Sam Walton's death in 1992, Wal-Mart has gone from being the largest retailer in the world to holding the top spot on the Fortune 500 list as the largest company in the world. Don Soderquist, who was senior vice chairman during that time, played a crucial role in that success. Sam Walton said, "I tried for almost twenty years to hire Don Soderquist . . . But when we really needed him later on, he finally joined up and made a great chief operating officer." Responsible for overseeing many of Wal-Mart's key support divisions, including real estate, human resources, information systems, logistics, legal, corporate affairs, and loss prevention, Soderquist stayed true to his Christian values as well as Wal-Mart's distinct management style. "Probably no other Wal-Mart executive since the legendary Sam Walton has come to embody the principles of the company's culture-or to represent them within the industry-as has Don Soderquist," Discount Store News once reported. In The Wal-Mart Way, Soderquist shares his story of helping lead a global company from being a $43 billion company to one that would eventually exceed $200 billion. Several books have been written about Wal-Mart's success, but none by the ones who were the actual players. It was more than "Everyday Low Prices" and distribution that catapulted the company to the top. The core values based on Judeo-Christian principles-and maintained by leaders such as Soderquist-are the real reason for Wal-Mart's success.

Author : Charles Fishman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781101218105

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The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman Pdf

"Highly readable, incisive, precise, and even elegant." —San Francisco Chronicle "Insightful." —BusinessWeek Wal-Mart isn’t just the world’s biggest company, it is probably the world’s most written-about. But no book until this one has managed to penetrate its wall of silence or go beyond the usual polemics to analyze its actual effects on its customers, workers, and suppliers. Drawing on unprecedented interviews with former Wal-Mart executives and a wealth of staggering data (e.g., Americans spend $36 million an hour at Wal-Mart stores, and in 2004 its growth alone was bigger than the total revenue of 469 of the Fortune 500), The Wal-Mart Effect is an intimate look at a business that is dramatically reshaping our lives.

Author : Julie Pierce
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781425712099

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"The Wal-Mart Way" Not Sam's Way by Julie Pierce Pdf

Among the merchandise, files and customers at Walmart are the associates. The people who greet the customers and keep the shelves stocked. This book looks into the lives of the people this company will forever be connected to, like it or not. It tells of the beginning of the end of Walmart. This is the warehouse, the truck driver and the system keeping count of it all. This is a written view from the inside. It takes an in depth look at associates, individual stores, salaried management and the corporate offices of this company listed on tickers of the New York Stock Exchange as wmt. For updated info go to www.walmartassociatescentral.com

Author : Bill Quinn
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307814760

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How Walmart Is Destroying America (And the World) by Bill Quinn Pdf

After carving up the once lovingly cared-for downtowns of Small Town America, Wal-Mart launched a frontal assault on mom-and-pop businesses all over the globe. With 1.5 million employees operating more than 3,500 stores, Wal-Mart is now the world's largest private employer. In this third edition of How Wal-Mart Is Destroying America (and the World), intrepid Texas newspaperman Bill Quinn continues the fight. Featuring detailed accounts of Wal-Mart's questionable business practices and the latest information on Wal-Mart lawsuits, vendor issues, and efforts to stop expansion, Quinn shows why Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., is arguably the most feared and despised corporation in the world. Whether you're a customer fed up with Wal-Mart's false claims, a vendor squeezed by strong-arm tactics, a worker pushed to increase the Waltons' bottom line, or a concerned citizen trying to save your hometown, this book will show you how to get Wal-Mart off your back and out of your backyard. BILL QUINN is a World War II veteran, retired newspaperman, and certified anti-Wal-Mart crusader. He lives with his wife, Lennie, in Grand Saline,Texas.

Author : Nelson Lichtenstein
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781429989718

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The Retail Revolution by Nelson Lichtenstein Pdf

The definitive account of how a small Ozarks company upended the world of business and what that change means Wal-Mart, the world's largest company, roared out of the rural South to change the way business is done. Deploying computer-age technology, Reagan-era politics, and Protestant evangelism, Sam Walton's firm became a byword for cheap goods and low-paid workers, famed for the ruthless efficiency of its global network of stores and factories. But the revolution has gone further: Sam's protégés have created a new economic order which puts thousands of manufacturers, indeed whole regions, in thrall to a retail royalty. Like the Pennsylvania Railroad and General Motors in their heyday, Wal-Mart sets the commercial model for a huge swath of the global economy. In this lively, probing investigation, historian Nelson Lichtenstein deepens and expands our knowledge of the merchandising giant. He shows that Wal-Mart's rise was closely linked to the cultural and religious values of Bible Belt America as well as to the imperial politics, deregulatory economics, and laissez-faire globalization of Ronald Reagan and his heirs. He explains how the company's success has transformed American politics, and he anticipates a day of reckoning, when challenges to the Wal-Mart way, at home and abroad, are likely to change the far-flung empire. Insightful, original, and steeped in the culture of retail life, The Retail Revolution draws on first hand reporting from coastal China to rural Arkansas to give a fresh and necessary understanding of the phenomenon that has transformed international commerce.

Author : Tom Slee
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781897071885

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No One Makes You Shop At Walmart by Tom Slee Pdf

We live in a culture of choice. But, in an age of corporate dominance, our freedom to choose has taken on new meaning. Upset with your local big box store? Object to unfair hiring practices at your neighbourhood fast food restaurant? Want to protest the opening of that new multinational coffeeshop? Vote with your feet! What if it’s not that simple? In No One Makes You Shop at Wal-Mart, Tom Slee examines the implications of our fervent belief in the power of choice. Pointing out that individual choice has become the lynchpin of a neoconservative corporate ideology he calls MarketThink, he urges us to re-examine our assumptions. Slee makes use of game theory to argue that individual choice is not inherently bad. Nor is it the societal fix-all that our corporations and governments claim it is. A spirited treatise, this book will make you think about choice in a whole new way.

Author : John Dicker
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781101143445

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The United States of Wal-Mart by John Dicker Pdf

An irreverent, hard-hitting examination of the world's largest-and most reviled-corporation, which reveals that while Wal-Mart's dominance may be providing consumers with cheap goods and plentiful jobs, it may also be breeding a culture of discontent. It employs one of every 115 American workers. If it were a nation-state, it would be one of the world's top twenty economies. With yearly sales of nearly $260 billion and an average way of $8 an hour, Wal-Mart represents an unprecedented-and perhaps unstoppable-force in capitalism. And there have been few corporations that have evoked the same levels of reverence and ire. The United States of Wal-Mart is a hard-hitting examination of how Sam Walton's empire has infiltrated not just the geography of America but also its consciousness. Peeling away layers of propaganda and politics, investigative journalist John Dicker reveals an American (and, increasingly, a global) story that has no clear-cut villains or heroes-one that could be the confused, complicated story of America itself. Pitched battles between economic progress and quality of life, between the preservation of regional identity and national homogeneity, and between low prices and the dignity of the American worker are beginning to coalesce into an all-out war to define our modern era. And, Dicker argues, Wal-Mart is winning. Revealing that the company's business practices have been shaping American culture, including the nation's social, political, and industrial policy, The United States of Wal-Mart provides fresh insight into a controversy that isn't going away.

Author : Michael Bergdahl
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1936587483

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The Sam Walton Way by Michael Bergdahl Pdf

This tribute commemorates Sam's Walton's 50-year leadership legacy and shares50 of his best leadership practices.

Author : Bethany Moreton
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780674256460

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To Serve God and Wal-Mart by Bethany Moreton Pdf

In the decades after World War II, evangelical Christianity nourished America’s devotion to free markets, free trade, and free enterprise. The history of Wal-Mart uncovers a complex network that united Sun Belt entrepreneurs, evangelical employees, Christian business students, overseas missionaries, and free-market activists. Through the stories of people linked by the world’s largest corporation, Bethany Moreton shows how a Christian service ethos powered capitalism at home and abroad. While industrial America was built by and for the urban North, rural Southerners comprised much of the labor, management, and consumers in the postwar service sector that raised the Sun Belt to national influence. These newcomers to the economic stage put down the plough to take up the bar-code scanner without ever passing through the assembly line. Industrial culture had been urban, modernist, sometimes radical, often Catholic and Jewish, and self-consciously international. Post-industrial culture, in contrast, spoke of Jesus with a drawl and of unions with a sneer, sang about Momma and the flag, and preached salvation in this world and the next. This extraordinary biography of Wal-Mart’s world shows how a Christian pro-business movement grew from the bottom up as well as the top down, bolstering an economic vision that sanctifies corporate globalization. The author has assigned her royalties and subsidiary earnings to Interfaith Worker Justice (www.iwj.org) and its local affiliate in Athens, GA, the Economic Justice Coalition (www.econjustice.org).

Author : Soderquist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 817758197X

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The Wal-Mart Way: The Inside Story Of The Success Of The World's Largest Company by Soderquist Pdf

Author : Richard K. Vedder,Wendell Cox
Publisher : A E I Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123340809

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The Wal-Mart Revolution by Richard K. Vedder,Wendell Cox Pdf

Wal-Mart is under attack--from labor unions, urban planners, globalization critics, and community activists. Looking at Wal-Mart, the authors review conditions before and after Wal-Mart entered a local market and look more broadly at Wal-Mart's impact on wages, productivity growth and inflation. Vedder and Cox show that the retailer has been a force for good.

Author : Sam Walton
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307763693

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Sam Walton by Sam Walton Pdf

Meet a genuine American folk hero cut from the homespun cloth of America's heartland: Sam Walton, who parlayed a single dime store in a hardscrabble cotton town into Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. The undisputed merchant king of the late twentieth century, Sam never lost the common touch. Here, finally, inimitable words. Genuinely modest, but always sure if his ambitions and achievements. Sam shares his thinking in a candid, straight-from-the-shoulder style. In a story rich with anecdotes and the "rules of the road" of both Main Street and Wall Street, Sam Walton chronicles the inspiration, heart, and optimism that propelled him to lasso the American Dream.

Author : Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786635167

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The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips,Michal Rozworski Pdf

Are multi-national corporations like Walmart and Amazon laying the groundwork for international socialism? For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their remarkable success appears to vindicate the old idea that modern society is too complex to be subjected to a plan. And yet, as Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski argue, much of the economy of the West is centrally planned at present. Not only is planning on vast scales possible, we already have it and it works. The real question is whether planning can be democratic. Can it be transformed to work for us? An engaging, polemical romp through economic theory, computational complexity, and the history of planning, The People’s Republic of Walmart revives the conversation about how society can extend democratic decision-making to all economic matters. With the advances in information technology in recent decades and the emergence of globe-straddling collective enterprises, democratic planning in the interest of all humanity is more important and closer to attainment than ever before.

Author : Donald D. Taylor,Jeanne Smalling Archer
Publisher : Amacom Books
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0814473008

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Up Against the Wal-Marts by Donald D. Taylor,Jeanne Smalling Archer Pdf

A formidable strategic tool any business can use to become and remain competitive in the shadow of retail giants.

Author : Tracie McMillan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781439171950

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The American Way of Eating by Tracie McMillan Pdf

A journalist traces her 2009 immersion into the national food system to explore how working-class Americans can afford to eat as they should, describing how she worked as a farm laborer, Wal-Mart grocery clerk, and Applebee's expediter while living within the means of each job.