Happy Monday, everybody, and welcome to another edition of three more questions, where we put

David Novak in the hot seat and get his takes on what he discussed with the previous week's

guest. David, great to see you as well, Kula.

Today we're debriefing the conversation that you had with Klaus Klinefeld, who I am awarding

as the man with the most interesting name that you've ever interviewed on the podcast.

I love saying his name, Klaus Klinefeld.

And I also love in the lightning round with Klaus, he says that his most profitable business ever was actually dressing up

as Santa Claus when he was younger, when he was like a young boy. Klaus as Santa Claus. I thought

that was amazing. Santa Claus. Get it everybody? Well, Klaus is the former CEO of Siemens and Alcoa, and he's the type of leader who really

understands the importance and the value of motivating your team and making motivation a key

piece of your culture.

Yeah, I think you want to have people pumped up coming to work every day,

wanting to do something that's exciting. And he really realizes that and understands that human capital

is just as important, if not more important than the financial capital. In fact, it's the human

capital and how people feel. That's what really drives your business and gets you to

have the profitability you're looking for in the end anyway. I love it too because Klaus is from

Germany and Siemens, when he took over his CEO, he spent a lot of time in a lot of countries.

And that concept, David, of human capital is universal. And so this episode will apply,

regardless of what type of business you're in

or where you do business.

Question number one. Klaus said one of his favorite moments and his leadership at

Siemens was when one of his employees said to him, you gave us our soul back. He goes on to

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