"If you don't trust your associates to know what is going on, they'll know you don't really consider them partners."
--Don Soderquist, vice chairman, Wal-Mart
From Fast Company's recently released book, The Rules of Business: 55 Essential Ideas to Help Smart People (and Organizations) Perform At Their Best
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March 23, 2006 at 2:03pm by ROGER FULTON
hard to consider using the word "trust" and
walmart in the same sentence without reaching for my
BAR at the same time. I would think that the Bored Room at Walmart would be in siege mentality 'bout now and life boat davits empty. Billions spent on PR stuff not doin the trick, hardly think "trust" applies to Walmart partners anymore than it does to accounting statements out of Morgan Stanley or any of the Big whatever-is-left on Wall Street.
Trust? Gimmme Zee Break.
Roger Fulton
Yuma, Arizona
March 29, 2006 at 1:30am by Julie Pierce
The associates know the culture is dead. There isn't much trust in any Walmart Store or office. It's "The Walmart Way" Not Sam's Way.
Don Soderquist didn't work with the associates in the stores I did.
From inside...