Winner's Book Club Selection of the Week: The 10 Rules of Sam Walton

The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results

WHAT ARE HIS “WINNER” CREDENTIALS?

From scratch, Sam Walton built the number one retail store in the world, Walmart. In the process he became the richest man in the world before he began dividing up his fortune among family members. He shared the wealth with his employees as well, with even company bus drivers becoming millionaires.

Set high expectations for everything you do.

That was always Sam Walton’s theme. Through a lifetime of incredible hard work he developed and refined the principles he used to win and grow his company and build the life he wanted for his family. In the last year of his life he wrote them down. Now you can discover and use his 10 Rules for yourself. They worked for him. They can work for you.

Amazon Editorial Review

As founder of Wal-Mart and its many successful divisions, Sam Walton reinvented the retailing industry through his singularity of focus, high expectations, and never-say-die attitude.

During his successful career, Sam Walton developed a list of what he considered the most important rules for entrepreneurial success. As far as he was concerned, there were ten key result areas that he considered pivotal to his own success.

Now, in The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results, author and former Wal-Mart employee Michael Bergdahl reveals these rules-and the stories behind them-to help you achieve success in both your professional and personal lives. Straightforward and to the point, this book offers valuable lessons that Walton himself followed, and taught, throughout his lifetime-from Rule #1: "Be passionately committed to achieving success" to Rule # 10: "Be different and challenge the status quo."

Whether you're an entrepreneur or an hourly paid employee, The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results will provide you with a blueprint for success that has proven itself time and again.

From the Inside Flap

Sam Walton was one of the most successful entrepreneurs of our time. He was also a self-made man. Starting from scratch, with a singularity of focus, he built Wal-Mart into the largest and most successful company in the world.

As a continuous learner, Walton was committed to constantly increasing his own knowledge. He challenged existing business theories and paradigms by developing and implementing a new set of rules and used this new information to build and improve every aspect of Wal-Mart. During his career, Walton—who associates respectfully referred to as "Mr. Sam"—developed a list of what he considered the most important rules for entrepreneurial success. As far as he was concerned, there were ten key result areas that he considered pivotal to his own success.

In The 10 Rules of Sam Walton: Success Secrets for Remarkable Results, author Michael Bergdahl offers you an insider's perspective of Mr. Sam's genius, by revealing the story behind the self-professed rules Walton embraced in order to become successful. Entwined in each of these rules are reoccurring themes of innovation, common sense, hard work, the power of positive thinking, and how to treat people.

With each chapter dedicated to one rule, you'll quickly discover how to:

• Motivate yourself and others to achieve your dreams
• Communicate with people and show that you care
• Appreciate and recognize people for their effort and results
• Listen to others and learn from their ideas
• Control expenses and save your way to prosperity
• Swim upstream, be different, and challenge thestatus quo...And much more

Each of Mr. Sam's ten rules is easily understandable and can be duplicated by anyone in both their professional and personal lives.