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PublisherCenter Street

ISBN-101478992980

ISBN-139781478992981

eBay Product ID (ePID)240443627

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Book TitleMy Father's Business : the Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General Into a Billion-Dollar Company

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLeadership, Economic History, Business, Corporate & Business History

Publication Year2018

IllustratorYes

GenreBiography & Autobiography, Business & Economics

AuthorCal Turner Jr.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight16.7 Oz

Item Length9.4 in

Item Width6.4 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2017-278813

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsMy Father's Business ought to be required reading in any business school . . . . a great book! -- Peter Handal, President and CEO, Dale Carnegie Training

Dewey Decimal381/.149092

SynopsisThe 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.

LC Classification NumberHC102.5.A2T87 2018

As told toSimbeck, Rob