My Review 3/5

Good listen about the history of Walmart and Sam Walton’s drive for excellence. Walmart was also covered by Jim Collins in his studies of the company.

Most notabe is that Sam’s WalMart concept is the evolution of his desire to continuously tinker with the system. He was a self-described merchant at heart and heeded the calling of several important decisions. Self service stores, discounting and selling on volume, computers computes computers to track inventory and all manner of store data, and warehousing.

Sam took accountability for the things that didn’t go well and looked to praise others for keeping things on the right track.

Date Read

2016/05/27

Date Added

2016/09/29

Goodreads book information

Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16309973

Bookshelves: biography

Author’s Note

Initial md Generated using https://github.com/jsr6720/goodreads-csv-to-md

Sam Walton, Sam Walton: Made in America, Philip Franklin Books on Tape 2002 (Audio CD)1

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  • Apr 22nd, 2024 Converted to jekyll markdown format and copied to personal site
  • May 27th, 2016 Originally published on goodreads

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  1. ISBN: =”0736682937” ↩