3 More Questions (Liz Elting) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: For leaders trying to scale their business, what should they be focusing on? What are ways leaders can reward their hard-working team in a time that demands more of their employees? What kind of balance do leaders need to have between instructing people on what to do, then setting them loose to go and do it? ——— ADDITIONAL RESOURCES 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! Become a better leader in 5 days with our free, 5-Day Leadership Tune Up. This five-minute-a-day program is designed for the busy leader – it cuts right to the chase and gives you the practical know-how you’ll need to boost your confidence as a leader. 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. I'm
0:08.0	trying another episode of Three More Questions with David Novak. David, how
0:13.4	you are you? I'm doing so glad to be with you.
0:17.6	Well, what Kula is trying to tell you is today we're taking a deeper dive into my conversation
0:25.3	with Liz Elting, former CEO of Transperfect, a language translation company, see her sense of
0:33.8	humor that grew to over a billion dollars.
0:37.1	Well, David, like Liz, I too spent some
0:40.2	time in Spain during college and learned to speak Spanish. And she shares in the episode that she
0:44.8	feels like she's in another place when she's speaking Spanish. And I kind of do too. Even
0:50.2	though I'm sitting here in Nashville, Tennessee recording this podcast episode, speaking a different language really does help me feel connected to other cultures.
0:58.3	And it's really fun to speak it whenever I can.
1:01.2	I thought I was in a different place too when you started riffing like that.
1:05.8	Well, we've got some fun questions for you today, David.
1:09.0	Like you said, Liz built Transperfect to over a billion
1:12.5	dollar company. And she did it with a lot of grit and a bias towards action. So today's
1:17.8	questions are going to revolve around those topics. Are you ready for him? See.
1:27.4	Question number one. Liz started Transperfect out of her NYU Business School dorm room
1:33.1	with her co-founder and just about $5,000 in the bank. In the episode, you asked what she
1:39.1	focused on first as she scaled and grew the business. And she said that the first thing she really focused on
1:45.3	was having her entire team be laser focused on selling every day. They wanted to have the
1:52.1	largest sales team and the industry by design. So they really put effort behind selling.
1:58.3	David, for leaders trying to scale their business, what else should they be focusing
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