Six principles

1. Think one Store at a time.
2. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
3. Keep your ear to the ground.
4. Push responsibility – and authority – down.
5. Force ideas to bubble up.
6. Stay lean, fight bureaucracy.

Samuel M. “Sam” Walton – American entrepreneur, founder of Walmart (1918-1992), from “Sam Walton, Made in America: My story” (1992)