It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand.

It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

For readers of Phil Knightâ€™s Shoe Dog and Howard Schultzâ€™s Onward, an inspiring memoir from the CEO of DICKâ€™s Sporting Goods about building a multibillion dollar business, coming to the defense of embattled youth sports programs, and taking a principledâ€”and highly controversialâ€”stand against the types of guns that are too often used in mass shootings and other tragedies.

In 1948, Ed Stack's father, Richard, started Dickâ€™s Bait and Tackle in Binghamton, New York, with $300 borrowed from his grandmother. A few years later, Dick expanded to a second location. In 1984, Ed bought the two stores from his father. Today DICKâ€™s Sporting Goods is the largest sporting goods retailer in the country with over 800 locations and close to $9 billion in sales.

Itâ€™s How We Play the Game tells the absorbing story of a complicated founder and an ambitious sonâ€”one who transformed a business by making it more than a business, conceiving it as a force for good in the communities it serves. The transformation Ed wrought wasnâ€™t easy: economic headwinds nearly toppled the chain twice. But DICKâ€™s support for embattled youth sports programs earned the stores surprising loyalty, and Ed was vocal in sounding the alarm about schoolsâ€™ underfunding not just of sports but of other extracurriculars, which earned DICKâ€™s even more respect.

Edâ€™s toughest business decision came in the wake of yet another school shooting; this one at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, in 2018. The senseless loss of life devastated Ed on many levels and he decided to take action. DICKâ€™s became the first major retailer to pull all semi-automatic weapons from its shelves and raise the age of gun purchase to twenty-one. Despite being a gun owner himself whoâ€™d grown up around firearms, Edâ€™s strategy included destroying the $5 million of assault-style-type rifles then in DICKâ€™s inventory.

It was a profit-risking policy that would earn the outrage of someâ€”even threats of harmâ€”but turn Ed into a national hero.

With vital lessons for anyone running a business and eye-opening reflections about what a company owes the people it serves, Itâ€™s How We Play the Game is the insightful story of a man who built one of America's most successful companies by following his heart.
Country USA
Brand Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer Scribner
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate 2019-10-08
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781982116910

Country	USA
Brand	Scribner Book Company
Manufacturer	Scribner
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	Illustrations, unspecified
ReleaseDate	2019-10-08
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781982116910

It's How We Play the Game: Build a Business. Take a Stand. Make a Difference.

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