#34: Part 1: Fred Ridley, Augusta National Golf Club Chairman—Preserve Tradition and Drive Innovation
How Leaders Lead with David Novak
David Novak Leadership
4.8 • 596 Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to How Leaders Lead where every week you get to listen in while I interview some of the very best leaders in the world. |
| 0:10.2 | I break down the key learning so that by the end of the episode, you'll have something simple you can apply as you develop into a better leader. |
| 0:17.9 | That's what this podcast is all about. |
| 0:20.7 | This past weekend, I had the opportunity |
| 0:22.6 | to attend the most exciting and most anticipated golf tournament in the world. The 2021 Masters |
| 0:29.4 | held at the renowned Augusta National Golf Club. Believe me, I've never seen a place more beautiful. |
| 0:36.8 | The birds were chirping, the azaleas were blooming, and this course was in magnificent shape, |
| 0:43.0 | and the players were just put to the test. |
| 0:46.2 | It was so much fun watching Hideki Matsuyama become the first male Japanese player to win a major |
| 0:52.8 | and the coveted green jacket. |
| 0:55.0 | It was also so exciting watching Japan's 17-year-old Subasa Kachitani win the Augusta |
| 1:02.0 | National Women's Amateur in a playoff the weekend before. What a great couple of weeks for Japan |
| 1:09.0 | and the whole golf community. |
| 1:17.3 | So it's obviously the perfect time to sit down with Fred Ridley, the chairman of Augusta National Golf Club. |
| 1:18.4 | Now, when we talk about Augusta National and the Masters, of course, the famous line is that |
| 1:24.1 | it's a tradition unlike any other. |
| 1:26.9 | And that's so true. And let me tell you, Fred has a ton of |
| 1:30.7 | respect for Augusta's unique tradition and historical guiding values. But he also has an incredible |
| 1:36.8 | vision for its future, leading efforts to elevate the women's game, serve the community, |
| 1:42.0 | and invest in communications infrastructure, just to name |
| 1:45.9 | a few of the things that this man is doing. The great leaders I know understand how to preserve |
| 1:51.8 | tradition and drive bold innovation that takes the organization into the future. That's a balance that |
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