Sam Walton: Leadership Style

Sam Walton: Leadership Style

I am writing my Worldview Paper on Sam Walton, the founder of Wal-Mart. In this paper I will tell you about his life, leadership style, and his Christ like attitude, along with my own personal Worldview.
Sam Walton was born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on March 29th, 1918. There he lived on a farm with his parents Thomas Gibson Walton and Nancy Lee Walton and his brother younger brother James, who was born in 1921, until 1923. They moved from Oklahoma to Chesterfield, Missouri because his father didn’t think that farming made enough money to support his family. His father became a mortgage man and they moved from one small town to another for several years. In the 8th grade he became the youngest Eagle Scout in the state’s history, later to become a recipient of the “Distinguished Eagle Scout Award” from the Boy Scouts of America. Sam grew up during the Great Depression so he had many chores such as milking the family cow, bottling the surplus, and driving it to customers. Afterwards he would deliver newspapers and also sold magazine subscriptions. He attended college and the University of Missouri where he majored in economics and was an ROTC officer. During college he had many odd jobs to make ends meet, he also joined a fraternity, Zeta Phi. When he graduated in 1940, he was voted “permanent president” of the class. Three days after graduating college he applied at JC Penney’s as a management trainee, he resigned in 1942 to join the military for service in World War II. In 1945, after leaving the military, Walton opened a variety store. With help from his father-in-law with a loan of $20,000, plus $5,000 he had saved from his time in the Army, Walton purchased a Ben Franklin variety store in Newport, Arkansas. The store was a franchise of the Butler Brothers chain. The first true Wal-Mart opened on July 2, 1962 in Rogers, Arkansas. It was called the Wal-Mart Discount City store and located at 719 West Walnut Street. Soon after, the Walton brothers...

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