In this case analyses we have a good example of different kinds of leadership and how leaders can change their organization's preferences. This report gives a detailed example about two CEOs for Home Depot; Bob Nardelli and Frank Black. The previous Leaders for Home Depot before these two CEOs did very well by challenging the market and exploring the customer needs and the way of grabbing the customer attention. They established special character to Home Depot and their employees, which created a smooth relationship between the customers and the Home Depot employees. The company was and still is expanding very quickly which formed the need for a new system to carry on with the same level of success. Home Depot needed to update and renew the machines and added more lines of new products all to help in improving the stores structures and to make it more a new look and approaches.
Since things started to change, a new vision was needed. in the end of year 2000 a new leader, Bob Nardelli, was hired as a CEO for Home Depot. Bob Nardelli got a MBA degree from University of Louisville in 1975. He was the president and CEO of GE Power Systems, and the senior vice president of GE from year 1995-2000. When he took the lead of Home Depot Company he tried to apply his new vision and plans to improve Home Depot's system. However, there was a problem: Bob Nardelli came from a company has a different way of operations and functions from Home depot. GE sells it service to the customers through other stores, otherwise Home Depot deals with customers directly. So Bob Nardelli leadership was the experience which illustrated an example of leadership chosen for the wrong place; it could cost Home Depot the loss of the whole business during his 7 years as CEO of Home Depot which spanned 2000-2007. We will compare his leadership another leader CEO Frank Blake who was hired