3 More Questions (Aaron Witt) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: What did you do to counter the negative perceptions and recruit great people to the food service industry? What stood out to you most about Aaron’s leadership that you think leaders everywhere should emulate? How much is too much when it comes to sharing with your team? ——— GO DEEPER Scale up your leadership skills in 2 minutes a day with the How Leaders Lead app — Download today in the App Store Get coaching from David by signing up to receive his Weekly Leadership Plan. It builds on each podcast episode by offering actionable steps you can take each week to incorporate the learnings from the episode into your leadership style. It only takes about 5 minutes and is a great way to start off your week! Subscribe to the How Leaders Lead podcast to ensure you never miss an episode!

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0:00.0	Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan here with David Novak to bring you another edition of three more questions.
0:05.9	David, we're talking about the dirt world today. How excited are you?
0:09.5	Well, I'm a lot more excited now than I was because I didn't know anything about the dirt world until I talked to Aaron with the CEO and founder of this company.
0:20.1	And, you know, he's really passionate about
0:22.6	really, you know, teaching people about the industry and the opportunities it has. And, you know,
0:29.0	I just loved his passion for something that I knew very little about. Dirt.
0:36.7	I knew very little about it as well.
0:39.0	And I recently visited the Buildwit office.
0:42.1	And walking into that building, I had this preconceived notion about construction
0:47.4	industry people.
0:48.4	I don't know why I just did.
0:50.4	But I left that building with a totally different perception and deep appreciation for the people
0:56.8	in the dirt world. And now all of a sudden, I'm like as freaking passionate about it as Aaron
1:02.6	Witt is. I want to go get behind a backhoe. You are not. You're not. Nobody can be more
1:07.7	passionate about than him. And that's a little bit of a stretch there.
1:11.7	But, hey, let me tell you something.
1:13.1	It's a little bit of a stretch.
1:14.6	It's a little bit of a stretch.
1:15.9	You know, but one thing he does say, one thing, you know, we both had this sense that people in the construction business are fairly conservative, an old line.
1:27.1	And why is that?
1:28.3	If you went online and you checked out any construction company,
1:32.3	they look like they're from the 1950s.
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