More Than a Hobby by David Green

More Than a Hobby

How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore (the Inside Story of Hobby Lobby)

David Green, Dean Merrill

Thomas Nelson · Print & ebook · July 26, 2010

Discover the behind-the-scenes story of the founding and exponential growth of Hobby Lobby.

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Who it’s for
A brisk inside story with ambition, faith, and retail-scale momentum.
Genres
Business Lives, Retailing, Starting a Business
Published
Thomas Nelson, July 26, 2010

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Discover the behind-the-scenes story of the founding and exponential growth of Hobby Lobby. Learn the secrets of retail success from the man you built America's home-and-craft superstore—from the ground up. 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.

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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.

Why It Clicks

A brisk inside story with ambition, faith, and retail-scale momentum.

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  • Christian business story
  • startup-to-superstore rise

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  • work and calling entwined
  • business-growth details, not soft focus

Where it sits

Business Lives68%
Retailing48%
Starting a Business35%

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Publisher categories

  • Business Lives
  • Starting a Business
  • Retailing
  • Professional Life (Christian)
Authors
David Green, Dean Merrill
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Published
July 26, 2010
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Business Lives