Style of Leadership
Christine Jefferson
BUS 610
Professor Carola
Due December 8, 2014

Robert Nardelli worked at Home Depot as CEO and was employed there from December 2000 to January 2007. Robert Nardelli held very high ranking jobs such as General Electric from 1971 to 1988 where he was an entry-level manufacturing engineer, from 1988 to 1991 he was the executive for a division of a construction equipment maker for J.I. Case Company but was part of Tenneco back then. In 1995, he rose to be president and CEO of GE Power Systems and having the title of GE senior VP but was let go from there and ironically within ten minutes of being let go, Nardelli received a job offer from a guy named Kenneth Langone who was on the boards of GE and Home Depot. In December 2000, Robert Nardelli became CEO of Home Depot and going into the position with absolutely no retail experience but Robert Nardelli had a plan. When working at GE, they used a system called Six Sigma management strategy. This plan focused on the entrepreneurial culture of the innovative product design with one which is focused on the relentless of cost cutting. While at Home Depot, Nardelli had changed the decentralized management structure and he did this by eliminating and also consolidating division executives. Nardelli also installed processes and streamlined operations but implemented an automatic inventory system and centralized supply order at the Atlanta headquarters. Robert Nardelli was known as a type of boss/CEO whose personality was straight forward and to the point. He knew what he wanted done and when he asked the workers to do something, they went ahead and did it because