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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Kevin Hochman) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How much value should leaders place on making FUN part of their culture? How should leaders evaluate their menu of products as they think about scaling their business? What else would you tell leaders to consider when driving innovation? ——— 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 to bring you another edition of three more

0:09.0

questions with David Novak. David, I'm so glad to be back recording another episode with you. How are you today?

0:15.2

I'm fine, cool, and back at you. Let's go. Well, today we're debriefing your conversation with

0:20.2

Kevin Hockman. He's the CEO of Brinker

0:22.6

International, which is the parent company of Chili's and Maggiano's. And this episode is amazing.

0:29.2

I mean, Kevin is a marketer by trade. And so he's just so engaging with all the stories that he tells

0:34.6

and how he really infuses fun into the culture at Brinker.

0:38.7

You know, cool, I'm so proud of Kevin

0:40.3

because he worked with me at Young Brands.

0:42.3

He was the chief marketing officer of KFC,

0:45.9

and he's the one that brought back the colonel

0:49.3

and had all the famous advertising,

0:53.6

you know, bringing Colonel Sanders back in different ways,

0:57.2

even having Reba McIntyre be a colonel. I mean, but it was a lot of fun and he turned the

1:02.3

business around and achieved a lot of success and then did the same thing at Pizza and then got

1:08.6

the opportunity to become a CEO at Brinkers. And I can only say that he's

1:14.9

just one fine person and it's great to see him do so well there. It was fun to hear how he's

1:21.2

implemented. A lot of the stuff he learned from you at Yom and his work with his team at Brinker.

1:26.5

And we'll dive into some of those concepts as we roll into the questions for today's

1:31.2

episode.

1:31.7

So let's get going.

1:32.9

But before we do that, Kula, I got to say, I learned a lot working with Kevin.

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