3 More Questions (Admiral Mike Mullen) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: If you had a trust profile that helped inform you whether or not to trust someone, what would be on it? How can leaders make sure they’re evaluating every perspective when they’re faced with a tough decision? How did you know when it was time to step away as CEO of Yum! Brands after nearly 20 years in your role? ——— 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 Cula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more
0:09.0	questions with David Noback. David, it's always great to be on these three more questions with you.
0:14.0	How are you today? I'm doing great, Cula, and I'm excited about today because we're going to take
0:19.6	a deeper dive into my conversation with
0:22.1	Admiral Mike Mullen, the 17th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and obviously a great
0:29.7	leader.
0:30.4	You're certainly right about that, David.
0:32.0	And this conversation is so fascinating.
0:34.6	And you can just tell that Admiral Mullen is a guy who really deeply
0:39.6	cares about the people that he leads, not only how they show up when they are working for
0:46.1	him, but what they're experiencing in their lives and how he can really enrich their lives
0:50.7	as he leads. And so I'm excited to get your take on some of the topics that you
0:55.3	discuss with him in our conversation today. So let's get going. Let's do that. One thing I would
1:00.4	add just about what impressed me about Admiral Mullen is his desire to hear the truth. He definitely
1:07.4	wants people around him to be able to speak up and tell it the way how they see it.
1:11.7	And I think that's a great trait for every leader to have.
1:15.9	So let's go, Kula.
1:21.1	Question number one.
1:22.7	Admiral Mullen was raised to trust people, and that's been a key aspect of how he connects with those he leads.
1:29.5	He now teaches at the Naval Academy in Annapolis, and one of the things he asks his students to do
1:34.6	is to create their trust profile, basically a framework that helps them identify who they trust
1:40.9	and who they be willing to trust. Now, David, if you had a trust profile that helped inform you of whether or not to trust someone,
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