More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became Americas Home and Craft Superstore Audiobook, by David Green Play Audiobook Sample

More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore Audiobook

More Than a Hobby: How a $600 Startup Became Americas Home and Craft Superstore Audiobook, by David Green Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Tom Parks Publisher: Thomas Nelson Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 3.50 hours at 1.5x Speed 2.63 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9781599510477

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

21

Longest Chapter Length:

29:09 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

06 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

14:46 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

5

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Publisher Description

The retail industry has undergone enormous changes during the last thirty years.

But there is one retailer that not only has remained consistent in the fluctuating?even tenuous?market, but also has grown in the process.

More Than a Hobby 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.

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:

  • Allow managers to spend no more than thirty minutes per day on paperwork
  • Instead of paying a middleman, assemble as much of the product as possible in-house
  • Give buyers the freedom to purchase without restraint—but within the realm of common sense
  • Keep God and family first

More Than a Hobby is a practical field manual, filled with revolutionary ideas for all those who dream of success in the world of retail business.

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About David Green

David Green is founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby. Born into a pastor’s home, he began working at a local five-and-dime as a teen. Marrying his high school sweetheart, the young couple began a small picture-frame shop. In 1972 they opened their first retail store. Today Hobby Lobby has more than three hundred stores in twenty-seven states. David and his wife Barbara have three grown children.

About Tom Parks

Tom Parks is an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator who has also been a finalist for the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has been involved in recording audiobooks and voice-overs for over thirty years and through an eclectic range of projects. In addition to performing and directing, he is also an active musician, drumming in musical theater productions in the Midwest, and is in demand as a conference speaker.