Since Sam Walton's death in 1992, WalMart has gone from being the largest retailer in the world to holding the top spot on the Fortune 500 list as the largest company in the world. Don Soderquist, who was senior vice chairman during that time, played a crucial role in that success. Sam Walton said, "I tried for almost twenty years to hire Don Soderquist...But when we really needed him later on, he finally joined up and made a great chief operating officer." Responsible for overseeing many of WalMart's key support divisions, including real estate, human resources, information systems, logistics, legal, corporate affairs, and loss prevention, Soderquist stayed true to his Christian values as well as WalMart's distinct management style. "Probably no other WalMart executive since the legendary Sam Walton has come to embody the principles of the company's cultureor to represent them within the industryas has Don Soderquist," Discount Store News once reported.InThe...