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Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast

FROM THE VAULT - Vision: A Conversation With Frank Blake, Part 1

Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast

Andy Stanley

Business

4.62.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Everything changes when we picture our organization upside down, with the CEO bearing the weight at the bottom and pushing vision up through the organization to the customer. Back in September 2015, Frank Blake and I discussed how and why this approach creates vision that will stick. As we enter 2022, this approach is more relevant than ever.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody, welcome to the Indy Stanley Leadership Podcast.

0:08.1

I'm Indy Stanley and today I will be your host because today I have my good friend Frank

0:12.9

Blake in the studio with me which means I get to ask questions for a change so Frank thank

0:18.5

you so much for joining us today.

0:20.7

I am thrilled to be here.

0:22.2

Well I'm thrilled that you're here and our podcast audience is even going to be more

0:25.9

thrilled after they hear what you have to say.

0:27.7

And some of you know Frank recently stepped down as the chairman and CEO of the Home Depot.

0:33.1

Prior to that Frank served as the executive vice president at the Home Depot over business

0:37.8

development and corporate operations.

0:41.2

Frank previously served and this is amazing.

0:43.2

This is why we're so honored to have you here today.

0:45.2

You're part of it.

0:46.2

He previously served as the deputy secretary for the U.S. Department of Energy, General

0:51.0

Council for the EPA, the Environmental Protection Agency, deputy, get this deputy council to

0:56.1

the vice president George H. W. Bush.

0:59.2

He worked with Jack Welch at General Electric.

1:02.0

They continued to maintain their friendship and Frank's got lots of Jack Welch quotes.

1:07.6

Maybe he'll share one with us.

1:09.3

He's got his undergrad from Harvard so he's way more educated than anybody in the studio

1:13.6

today.

1:14.6

He's a lot of grief from Columbia Law School.

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