Over the next three days I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to provide live-blogging the ReThink Leadership and Orange Conference. This has traditionally been one of my go-to events each year. I can’t wait for this year’s content and the opportunity to share it with you.
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Now on to the conference content:
ReThink Leadership’s next speaker of the day was Frank Blake. Frank is a businessman and lawyer, who was the chairman and CEO of The Home Depot from January 2007 to May 2014. Talk about a disrupter.
The following are 13 Leadership Quotes from his challenging session:
- “Every Sunday I would write 200 hand-written notes… I knew hand-written notes were powerful.”
- “A hand-written note is a piece of yourself as a leader and what you want to get done.”
- “Recognition and celebration is one of the most important things I did.”
- “You get what you measure.”
- “You tell me what an organization celebrates and I’ll tell you what your organization gets.”
- “It’s not Lowe’s, our chief competitor is Amazon.” – Clay Scroggins speaking on Frank’s behalf
- “We stopped building stores. We have enough stores. The issue is the internet.”
- “The church is so far behind.” – Frank on online church
- “Most organizations want to change plus or minus 5% of last year. You don’t get anywhere in an organization changing plus or minus 5%. You must change 25-30%. People then get anxious.”
- “Your employees owe you no loyalty and they’re interested in your success, but that’s not their core interest in your organization.”
- “It is our job to make you believe and know it’s true that there’s no better place to spend your time and your blood, sweat, and tears than at Home Depot.”
- “I told HR they must make employees know the organization is invested in their success.”
- “As a leader you never want to deny how bad things are.”
What a great way to open the conference! Next up is one of the reasons I came to this event. The incomparable Dan Reiland will be teaching!!! Have your note pads ready!!!
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