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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Greg Johnson) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How can leaders empower their people to own decisions while still ensuring they deliver on what matters most? How can leaders avoid over-indexing on data and still keep people at the heart of decision making? What are the most important ways a leader can set the right tone? ——— 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!

Transcript

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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.

0:10.5

David, I always say this, but this is also a really fun one because we're debriefing your conversation with Greg Johnson,

0:16.7

who is the owner of the San Francisco Giants, who just so happen to be on a role right now in the MLB.

0:22.9

Absolutely.

0:23.6

They are off to a fantastic start.

0:25.6

And he's also the executive chairman

0:27.7

and chairman of the board of Franklin Templeton,

0:30.6

which is a fantastic company that he's grown along with his family

0:34.8

for a number of years.

0:36.0

So this is a guy who knows how to build dynasty-like performance.

0:55.1

Heck, yeah, he does. And I have to give a shout out to my boy, Yaz. I went to college with Mike Yistrimski. He plays for the Giants. He's a legend. So, Yaz, if you're listening, just know you got a couple fans over here at How Leaders League. Well, Mike Estrimski, you certainly are in a legendary family for sure because Carl Yostrinsky was my hero. And I didn't remember him playing for

1:01.7

Boston and he was amazing. Well, speaking of Dynasties, the Yostrinsky family certainly is one.

1:06.9

So shout out to the eyes, both big and little. David, today, though, we're going to dive into

1:13.1

these questions. Are you ready for it?

1:14.7

Fire away.

1:19.3

Question number one. I love an episode when Greg talks about resisting the urge to override decisions

1:25.3

from his people. Instead, when someone brings him a decision,

1:28.8

he focuses on asking the right questions to help them then make a better decision, because

1:34.0

ultimately, they're accountable for their part of the business. David, how can leaders

1:38.6

empower their people to own decisions while still ensuring that they deliver on what matters

1:43.5

most? Well, I think first and foremost, you have to realize as a leader that telling own decisions while still ensuring that they deliver on what matters most.

1:48.9

Well, I think first and foremost, you have to realize as a leader that telling isn't selling.

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