yeah well it says a lot about your leadership as well i'm sure so i'd love to jump into that so you you say yes you take on the role what did you what was the vision uh as you as you entered the role and what actually started to transpire

so such a great question so i'll start with a cultural point I tell this story because it's not a story, it's true.

I pick up the phone and I call my son.

My son happened to have served in Iraq and Home Depot had a program for returning military veterans working in the store.

And he had done that, I mean...

since when he got back from Iraq.

And by that time, he had been assistant store manager, store manager in Colorado.

So what did you do specifically as you thought through that harder question of cascading up instead of just having gravity naturally pull it down?