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Stakeholders for Home Depot and Nardelli's Leadership Style

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There are a number of stakeholders for Home Depot. The list of internal stakeholders includes the Board of Directors, the senior management team, the shareholders and the employees. All of these stakeholders have a direct stake in the success of the company, especially in terms of finances and their livelihoods. All draw some form of income from the company, though with the shareholders that mostly comes in the form of capital gains. The external shareholders include the customers, the suppliers, the business partners, the governments and people living where Home Depot operates and the environment. There may also be unions or activist groups that feel (rightly or wrongly) that they have a stake in Home Depot's operations. For example, Home Depot pays taxes to the municipalities, states and countries in which it operates. It buys goods from its suppliers, many of which are dependent on Home Depot's business. Customers are natural stakeholders, since they buy goods from Home Depot. The people in the communities in which Home Depot operates benefit not only from the taxes, but charitable ventures, the jobs the company creates and the way that a Home Depot store transforms the local environment, landscape and business climate.
Managing the vast portfolio of stakeholder demands is one of the most important jobs of the CEO. All leaders must prioritize how they will address the different stakeholder needs. For Robert Nardelli of Home Depot, the 2011 Annual Report provides some

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