My Father's Business: The Small-Town Values That Built Dollar General Into a Billion-Dollar Company
"In this debut book, a retired executive examines the genesis and evolution of his family's business, Dollar General. . . Turner's. . . candid chronicle. . . covers not only the company's triumphs, but its dark days as well, including its brutal disputes with the Teamsters, a risky overexpansion in the '80s, and an embarrassing accounting scandal in the early 2000s.
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Book Information
| Publisher: | Center Street |
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| Publish Date: | 05/22/2018 |
| Pages: | 272 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781478992981 |
| ISBN-10: | 1478992980 |
| Language: | English |
Full Description
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.
