3 More Questions (Andy Jassy) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How does someone deal with the pressures of figuring out their path early in their career? How does a "shadow role" help prepare both the individual and the company for a smooth leadership transition? How does the paradigm of having either a one-way door or a two-way door decision empower employees within a big company like Amazon? ——— 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, and it's time for another edition of three more questions.
0:09.6	Today's episode is debriefing David's conversation with the CEO of Amazon.
0:15.7	Perhaps you've heard of that little company. David, we're debriefing your conversation with Andy Jassy. And as one can
0:22.2	imagine, this episode is chock full of powerful insights and amazing stories about Andy's career and how
0:29.1	he is leading at Amazon. Yeah, he's been so instrumental in their growth. I mean, he's the force
0:34.1	behind AWS and he is the guy who really built that huge business,
0:38.9	which has got to be 75, 80 percent of their total profits.
0:42.5	But, you know, I'll tell you what's really interesting about him is I had another chance
0:46.8	to spend some time with Andy at another function, and he's about us down to earth as you
0:52.4	could ever imagine.
0:53.5	I mean, he's just a really good guy, very kind, thoughtful, wonderful person that just happens to be smart and just happens to be incisive and a driver and can make things happen.
1:06.3	And it's really great when you can meet people like that.
1:09.3	Absolutely.
1:10.0	I also loved hearing about his career journey because the path he took was not straight and narrow to the CEO of Amazon.
1:17.1	He almost started a record company at one point in his career.
1:20.6	Yeah.
1:21.0	Yeah.
1:21.7	He loves music.
1:23.2	He loves sports and obviously loves his family.
1:26.2	And he's just the guy who's got a lot going on and seems to know how to keep it together.
1:31.2	Absolutely.
1:31.9	Well, David, I'm excited to get your take on some of the concepts that you and Andy discussed.
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