Driving Retail Growth: Top 5 Myths Dispelled

Doug McMillon, the CEO of Wal-Mart, is just 47 years old. He's using that youthful vigor to begin shaking things up at the biggest of the big boxes. My favorite story about this dynamic CEO is that he ordered every top executive at Wal-Mart to read a book about Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos.

McMillon wants his team to focus on how Bezos, while creating Amazon, studied Wal-Mart's strategies of acting fast and experimenting often. (Get it? McMillon is reclaiming the "eye of the tiger.")