This article also partially published in Northwest
Arkansas Living™ Magazine
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Critical Path to Greatness; |
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H. Lee Scott, Jr. |
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| ...Bentonville, Arkansas (USA). I wanted to ask the man that occupies the
Office of the Chief Executive a few questions about Wal*Mart and his personal
philosophies. In my first article of this series entitled, “Interacting
with a Giant; My Experience Interviewing: H. Lee Scott, Jr., CEO, Wal*Mart Stores, Inc.,”
I candidly reported on my experience leading up to and subsequently resulting from an hour
and 18-minute-long riveting and impacting exchange with the World’s largest CEO.
Here, however, I will share with you a snapshot of the 25 year journey to the top of the
largest corporation on planet Earth.
Business schools, liberal arts academies, technology institutes, and quite frankly, all
educational institutions can benefit from the absolute successful way in which Wal*Mart
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and hundreds-of-thousands of daily shoppers cannot ALL be wrong. In
theory, if everything in a textbook, with respect to business, philosophy and strategy
were all correct, then Wal*Mart should serve as a perfect case study for every example of
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the organizational brand and culture that Wal*Mart radiates and epitomizes. The
Road to the Top – How he did it
From the
humble beginnings as a graduate of Baxter Springs High School, located in Baxter Springs,
Kansas, to his current post as president and Chief Executive Officer of Wal*Mart Stores,
Inc., H. Lee Scott, Jr., is the personification of the “American Dream,”
ratified, and all that is possible for those who aspier to work hard, play by the rules,
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