More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Start-Up Became America's Home & Craft Superstore

<p>The retail industry has undergone enormous changes during the last thirty years.</p><p>But there is one retailer that not only has remained consistent in the fluctuating?even tenuous?market, but also has grown in the process.</p><p><i>More Than a Hobby </i>takes you inside the story of David Green, the man who built the phenomenal success of Hobby Lobby. Green went beyond surviving in a competitive retail market to thriving, ultimately expanding his $600 start-up company into a $1.3 billion per-year enterprise.</p><p>Green's incredible accomplishments were based not on business-school theory but on his grassroots experiences as a store manager and his creative application of cutting edge ideas, including: </p><ul><li>Allow managers to spend no more than thirty minutes per day on paperwork</li><li>Instead of paying a middleman, assemble as much of the product as possible in-house</li><li>Give buyers the freedom to purchase without restraint--but within the realm of common sense</li><li>Keep God and family first</li></ul><p><i>More Than a Hobby </i>is a practical field manual, filled with revolutionary ideas for all those who dream of success in the world of retail business.</p><br><br><b>Author:</b> David Green<br><b>Publisher:</b> Thomas Nelson<br><b>Published:</b> 07/26/2010<br><b>Pages:</b> 224<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781595559838