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100 1 $aTurner, Cal.
245 10$aMy father's business :$bthe small-town values that built.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bCenter Street, Hachette Book Group,$c2018.
300 $axiv, 255 p., [8] p. of plates :$bill. (some col.) ;$c23 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
505 0 $aIntroduction; 1. Scottsville, Kentucky: "The Center of the Universe"; 2. The Lessons of Adolescence; 3. Business: The Key Turner Dynamic; 4. "Every Day Is Dollar Day"; 5. Academic and Leadership Testing: Vanderbilt and the Navy; 6. Interning with The Real Cal Turner; 7. Dealing with Entrepreneurial Chaos; 8. Winging It with Wall Street; 9. Filling the Suit; 10. Scottsville Divided: The Teamsters Strike; 11. Expansion: Breaking the Commandments; 12. A Company Out of Control; 13. The Toughest Decision of My Life; 14. A Family and Company Divided; 15. Serving Others : A Mission That Mattered; 16. Selective Unscrewing; 17. My Dad's Final Years: Still Thinking About the Customer; 18. Exiting the Company: That Lonesome Valley; 19. Retirement: Redefining Who I Am; Photos; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Praise for My Father's Business; Newsletters.
520 $a"This classic story told through the eyes of my friend Cal Jr. is instructive in almost every area of life. I simply could not put it down. Must-read!" -Dave Ramsey, bestselling author and nationally syndicated radio show host The first-person account of the family that changed the American retail landscape. Longtime Dollar General CEO Cal Turner, Jr. shares his extraordinary life as heir to the company founded by his father, Cal Turner, Sr., and his grandfather, a dirt farmer turned Depression-era entrepreneur. Cal's narrative is at its heart a father-son story, from his childhood in Scottsville, Kentucky, where business and family were one, to the triumph of reaching the Fortune 300-at the cost of risking that very father/son relationship. Cal shares how the small-town values with which he was raised helped him guide Dollar General from family enterprise to national powerhouse. Chronicling three generations of a successful family with very different leadership styles, Cal Jr. shares a wealth of wisdom from a lifetime on the entrepreneurial front lines. He shows how his grandfather turned a third-grade education into an asset for success. He reveals how his driven father hatched the game-changing dollar price point strategy and why it worked. And he explains how he found his own leadership style when he took his place at the helm-values-based, people-oriented, and pragmatic. Cal's story provides a riveting look at the family love and drama behind Dollar General's spectacular rise, pays homage to the working-class people whose no-frills needs helped determine its rock-bottom prices, and shares the life and lessons of one of America's most compelling business leaders.
600 10$aTurner, James Luther.
600 10$aTurner, Cal.
600 10$aTurner, Hurley Calister.
600 10$aTurner, James Stephen.
650 0$aRetail trade$zUnited States$vCase studies.
650 0$aStores, Retail$zKentucky.
650 0$aFathers and sons$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aBusinesspeople$zUnited States$vBiography.
650 0$aStores, Retail$zUnited States.
700 1 $aSimbeck, Rob.