Check out a recent post on the Church of the Customer Blog (Militarizing Retail) about Home Depot brining in former military officers to move the company forward. I find the move very disturbing, not because I’m against bringing former officers into management positions, but because of the implication of the following statement from the originating Business Week article:

“[Home Depot CEO Nardelli's] strategy is to usurp Home Depot’s entrepreneurial culture by installing mostly former military officers in the company’s leadership program and creating a just-follow-orders culture.”

Wow. That sounds like a really fun and open place to work. I am not familiar with Home Depot’s previous management or company culture, but I would imagine that the “just-follow-orders” culture is a bit of a step down. We’ll see how this shakes out.

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