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Mass Market Paperbound
368 pages
ISBN 9780553562835 Published June 1993
Bantam Books
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Sam Walton, Made in America
My Story
By Sam Walton, John Huey 

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How Did They Do It?
Posted Aug. 5, 2011 4:06 a.m. by sally-haldorson
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

In our The 100 Best Business Books of All Time, we included a chapter of recommended biographies. Jack has always championed the form as a valid way to learn valuable business lessons, not just as good entertainment. In the opening of the chapter, we explained:

How did they do it? That is the question we all want to ask when we meet someone famous or wealthy. We want to mimic them, thinking that if we just follow their footsteps we'll arrive at the same place. But, as Mark Twain said, "History rhymes; it does not repeat." Biographies provide a direction and a context so we can better plot our own course."

In that chapter, we included these 7 biographies:

Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. by Ron Chernow;

My Years with General Motors by Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.;

The HP Way by David Packard;

Personal History by Katharine Graham;

Moments of Truth by Jan Carlzon;

Sam Walton: Made in America by Sam Walton with John Huey;

Losing My Virginity by Richard Branson.

Today, Fast Company came out with their own list of recommended biographies. They chose:

Mary Kay: Miracles Happen by Mary Kay Ash;

Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman

by Yvon Chouinard;

Direct from Dell: Strategies that Revolutionized an Industry; by Michael Dell and Catherine Fredman;

Iacocca: An Autobiography by Lee Iacocca with William Novak;

Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy;

The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company by David Packard;

Body and Soul: Profits with Principles, the Amazing Success Story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop by Anita Roddick;

Pour Your Heart into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time by Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang;

Sam Walton, Made in America: My Story by Sam Walton and John Huey

Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond by Thomas J. Watson and Peter Petre;

Jack: Straight from the Gut by Jack Welch and John A. Byrne

While our recommendations are quite dissimilar (we only have two matching titles, The HP Way and Sam Walton), some of these books (the Ogilvy and Watson) made our original shortlist, and we also write a bit in the new paperback version of The 100 Best coming out in November 2011 about the game-changing effect that Iococca's book had on the business book genre.

Looking at the sub-genre of business biographies as a whole, unlimited lessons can be learned from the lives of others, and we are privileged to be let into the lives of these masters of business through their books.



Jeff Hayzlett's Business Library
Posted April 27, 2010 8:35 a.m. by dylan
In - 800 CEO Read Blog

If you know who Jeff Hayzlett is, it is probably from his appearances on television or his Twitter footprint. But the chief marketing officer of Kodak is now venturing into the wonderful world of analog with his new book, The Mirror Test: Is Your Business Really Breathing?, being released by Business Plus in May. And he has done something in that book that I wish more authors would do. He has included an appendix in which he lists his "Business Library 'Must' List." It gives you an idea of what has influenced him most over the years (and, just maybe, an idea of what to expect from his book). It includes:

Not only does his book get extra points from me for including a list of his favorites, Hayzlett himself gets extra credit for using a Garrison Keillor quote to introduce the list: "A book is a gift you can open again and again."



inBubbleWrap - Made in America
Posted Feb. 23, 2009 8:24 a.m. by dylan
In 100 Best - 800 CEO Read Blog

We've all been to Wal-Mart. Even if you're not a big fan of the business itself, the story of it's founder, Sam Walton, is an inspirational one. It's the story of a good old boy from Arkansas, a formerly distinguished eagle scout and star athlete with a single five-an-dime store, building the largest company the world has ever seen.

Wal-Mart is not only largest retailer in the U.S., Canada and Mexico, it is "the second largest grocer in Britian" (The Wal-Mart Effect by Charles Fishman, Page 6). That it arose from such humble beginnings is, as Fishman describes it, "quite rightly, the stuff of American business legend."

The book we're offering on inBubbleWrap this week, Made in America: My Story, was penned by the legend himself, Sam Walton. I could point out, once again, that naming a book about Wal-Mart Made in America is somewhat ironic, but that's not the point here... the point is that the story of Wal-Mart is largely Sam Walton's story, and Sam Walton's story is the quintessential American success story.

If you'd like Jack's take on that story, check out the video below and pick up a copy of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time for more.

If you'd like to get that story firsthand, we have 25 copies available.




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