How do you feel when someone tells you that it does not take a Harvard degree or a over hyped IIM degree to start a venture of your own. What is required is a strong conviction in your dream & a persistent effort to pursue that dream whatever the world around might have to say about your dream.
I can feel that “C’mon we all know that” feeling already brewing inside your head. But believe me that is what is required when you want to get started of your own. You can ask how I know that. Well, It required just a 3 hrs daily 10 days session with the greatest merchant to have ever lived on this Earth Sam Walton to assure me of that. If the name sounds unfamiliar to you then it is better to stop thinking about business & start thinking about something you are good at. Because no one denies knowing the founder of the Number one company in Fortune 500 list.Hey I am talking about WAL-MART & the dreamer( I would love to use that word for the founder) Sam Walton behind this huge corporation.
Got to know about his life from the book “MADE IN AMERICA” which I just bought from the book store out of curiosity. But the book proved to be a gem of a thing. Narrated in a lucid way the book holds you in a superb grip of the story of a person who believed in providing the customer the best ever service they can get in retailing & held on to that belief throughout his life. In a candid way the founder who is also the coauthor of the book along with John Huey, has put down anything & everything that had something to do with WALMART & the process of making it as big as it is now.
The book is embedded with so many gems about how to go about a business, that you feel sometime it is more of a study book than a leisure book.
Customer is the king, Communication gap is the worst trouble you can imagine your organization to be in, treat your employees in a dignified way, give them responsibility & see them growing up, Believe in your dreams, be in the place where the real action is rather than inside a fancy office space,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,the list of gems in never ending.
Aren’t these stuffs they teach in Mgmt schools & how much do we pay to listen to all these things told over again & again?
I wonder why don’t people switch off their TV & get started with the reading habit because so many worthy books like this are floating around . Rather than making the book complicated with all the numbers & statistics, the authors have tried their best to keep it as simple as it can be to let everyone venture into the mystic that WAL MART has become for a lot of people.If you ever want to start a business then better go for this book rather than running here & there for tips & if you want to go into retailing then this is the only book you should pick.
Enjoyable reading & enlightenemnet guaranteed. No doubt it made to the best sellers list.
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