More Than a Hobby, David Green
More Than a Hobby, David Green
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More Than a Hobby
How a $600 Startup Became America's Home and Craft Superstore (The Inside Story of Hobby Lobby)

Author: David Green, Dean Merrill

Narrator: Tom Parks

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 04/19/2022


Synopsis

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.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 paperworkInstead of paying a middleman, assemble as much of the product as possible in-houseGive buyers the freedom to purchase without restraint?but within the realm of common senseKeep 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.

About David Green

David Green is the founder and CEO of Hobby Lobby, the largest privately owned arts and crafts retailer in the world. Hobby Lobby employs over 33,000 people, operates 800 stores in forty-seven states, and grosses more than $5 billion dollars a year. Currently David serves on the Board of Reference for Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In 2013, he was honored by receiving the World Changer award and is also a past Ernst & Young national retail/consumer Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient. In 2017, the Green family opened the Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC.

About Dean Merrill

Dean Merrill is the author and coauthor of 46 books, including Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Church and three other Jim Cymbala titles: Fresh Faith, Fresh Power, and You Were Made for More. He and his wife live in Colorado Springs, Colorado.    


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brad on May 07, 2020

I read this book while researching perspectives on Faith and Work, knowing Hobby Lobby is an overtly Christian-owned business. To be honest, I expected this book to have some pretty poor theology of work, since, from what I had observed, Hobby Lobby is just another national craft chain that sells ma......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on March 15, 2017

It's kinda funny because I don't even know why I found this book so captivating, but captivating it was. It was quite intriguing to hear how a big chain of stores is run - nothing like what I had imagined. It made me want to study mores bout retail, or maybe have a character who's family owned a sto......more

Goodreads review by Michael on August 10, 2024

I was up and down throughout this book. I love biographies and business/leadership content. So I assumed I would love this book. At first it was great, then I got bored by the details and okay writing style - then I got back into it toward the end. Overall I gleaned some good nuggets and felt neutra......more

Goodreads review by Danielle on June 29, 2017

Neat book on how Hobby Lobby is ran. Enjoyed learning about the business!......more

Goodreads review by Sarah on October 24, 2018

I am not normally a nonfiction reader; however, I devoured this book! I could not put it down. David Green is an amazing story teller. The book is all about how Hobby Lobby was started and how it has grown to where it is today. He talks about their faith and how they incorporate that into their busi......more