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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Walmart’s whole business empire rests on logistics.
Chapter 3: Modern logistics fuses concrete technologies with abstract notions of time and space.
Chapter 4: Walmart relies on architecture to fine-tune efficiency.
Chapter 5: Walmart selects store sites through a framework of cool, rational calculations.
Chapter 6: Distribution centers are engineered to treat workers as components of a vast automated system.
Chapter 7: By fusing a distant location with global reach, Walmart’s headquarters has created a brand-new kind of urban landscape.
Chapter 8: A society organized around logistics might not bring lasting fulfillment.
Description
The Rule of Logistics (2016) delves into the intricate and extensive network of the infrastructure that makes your local Walmart come to life. Pulling in elements of history, economics, and architectural theory, this intriguing account traces how a retailer from Arkansas became one of the largest corporations in the world and transformed the American landscape in the process.
Who Should Listen
- Big-picture thinkers interested in global systems
- Entrepreneurs curious to super-size their businesses
- Anyone who has ever shopped at a big-box store