start with why chapters 11 and 12

When Why Goes Fuzzy, the title of chapter 11. starting the chapter with a summary of sam walton and the founding of walmart, the author describes that sam walton built hims empire for something else, for the people, he believed in the people. he believed that if you looked after the people, the people would look after him. that the more walmart could give employees, customers, and the community, that the more the community, employees and custoemrs would give back to walmart. sam walton concluded that “we are all working together”

walmarts founding success was based on this principal, serving the people and for the people so that they would return the favor. and it worked. soon after sam walton died, walmart turned from the Why they did business and replaced it with the How they did business. selling everything cheap at its cheapest cost while also sacrificing quality and mainly the people.

walmart has turend to the opposite of what they used to be. as a company that lawmakers use to fight to bring in, are now fighting to keep out.at what point does being too worried about protecting your bottom line become a bad thing,where you are forgetting about the most important thing your company was founded on? thats the why for walmart in this case, the people. it all comes down to sticking with how you became successfull and the message you startedoff with and not to lose that just to feel succesfull because your organization will sacrifice a lot.

In chapter 12 “Split Happent” the author discusses at that sometimes “what starts to take over why” and a split of the two happens. sometimes a company becomes too big in success to clearly keep the why first and on its path.

when a company starts, with one person or a small groups idea, it is easy to keep the notion of why moving forward. them using their gut and instings to make clear decisions for thier company themselves. and as the company starts to beocme more successful and grow, the ability for one to make all the decisions becomes decreased. trust must be passed to others to clearly follow out the why of the leader and they must make decisions from hirings and firings from their own ideas and no longer the original masterminds. thye will by buying and selling, not the mastermings. as this starts to happen and the ocmpany grows from success, the why starts to dilute and the what starts to take over and the original why starts to dissapear.

when businesses first start the what and why they do are closely paralleled. when a small company is first founded, they start off small and are surrounded by a close knit group of people. the founder is around and all can comforably convey the why the founder has set to be seen. the key to being successful if the comany wants to grow from a small business to a big business is keeping the why and not losing the split. one way of doing this is looing at what is called the school bus test. this is making sure the company can move on with the engrained WHY the founder has set in the company after the founder dies.

the future success of a company as seen by the passing of sam walton of walmart, is how a company best handles avaiding the split from why to what. doing so will define your company even more and strengthen its loyalty from others and keep them successful.