My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General into a Billion-Dollar Company

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Synopsis
The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape that Dave Ramsey calls a must-read.Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the Fortune 300 -- at the cost of risking that very father/son relationship. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. Chronicling three generations of a successful family with very different leadership styles, Cal Jr. shares a wealth of wisdom from a lifetime on the entrepreneurial front lines. He shows how his grandfather turned a third-grade education into an asset for success. He reveals how his driven father hatched the game-changing dollar price point strategy and why it worked. And he explains how he found his own leadership style when he took his place at the helm -- values-based, people-oriented, and pragmatic. Cal's story provides a riveting look at the family love and drama behind Dollar General's spectacular rise, pays homage to the working-class people whose no-frills needs helped determine its rock-bottom prices, and shares the life and lessons of one of America's most compelling business leaders.
Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
272 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781478992998
Related ISBNs:
9781478992981
Publisher:
Hachette Nashville
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Cal Turner, Jr.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.
With:
Rob Simbeck

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