David Rosenthal
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40,888 appearances
64 recordings
4 series
first heard Aug 2022
last heard 14 Sep
David Rosenthal’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And so Arthur goes away, thinks about it, he comes back and he's like, oh man, Ken, you're right.
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Actually, the answer is no.
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Pat certainly can't take my place and you can, you know, we love you, but you're not an operator.
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You can't be CEO of this company.
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And yeah, I guess we haven't really cultivated an executive bench here in the company of someone who could take over as CEO.
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So the board and Arthur together decide, hey, we got to bring in a external search firm and bring some more management talent into the company.
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And the plan is that they're going to go recruit a president and CEO, basically somebody to replace Arthur's old job as number two.
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Now that Arthur is CEO and this new person will be next in line to take the helm of the company when Arthur is ready to retire.
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And Arthur actually chairs the search committee himself.
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And the first target is Jamie Dimon.
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It's amazing.
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Who has just gotten fired by Sandy Weil at Citigroup.
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But this does burn a bunch of time.
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The whole process of meeting Jamie, wooing him, recruiting him.
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They really do vibe.
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Jamie will say to this day that he loved everything about Home Depot, the culture, the philosophy as a company.
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Yep.
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So the company burns about six months on the Jamie process.
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At the end of it, they've still got nobody.
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And the board is starting to get a little frustrated here.
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