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My Father's Business (Paperback): Cal Turner, Cal Turner Jr, Rob Simbeck

My Father's Business (Paperback)

Cal Turner, Cal Turner Jr, Rob Simbeck

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The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape.

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.

Exploring 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 breakthrough 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 business lessons of one of 20th-century America's most compelling business leaders.

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Imprint: Center Street
Country of origin: United States
Release date: April 2019
Authors: Cal Turner • Cal Turner Jr • Rob Simbeck
Dimensions: 202 x 128 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 978-1-4789-9296-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions
Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Distributive industries > Retail sector
Books > History > History of specific subjects > History of specific institutions
Books > Biography > General
LSN: 1-4789-9296-4
Barcode: 9781478992967

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