Welcome to How Leaders Lead. I'm Kula Callahan here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak.

David, it's so great to be on these shows with you. How are you today?

I'm doing great Kula, and I'm looking forward to this conversation that we have.

I always can't wait to figure out what those three questions are

that you're going to fire at me. And I think it's great that it's pretty unrehearsed, not pretty

unrehearsed. It is unrehearsed. So here we go. And today, we're going to talk about my conversation

that I had with Michelle Korsmo, who's the president's CEO of the National Restaurant Association.

Michelle is a fantastic leader.

And what I love about Michelle is that she has to unite and engage people across multiple

different entities, across multiple different sectors.

And Michelle is truly gifted at unifying people.

And she's also just a strong female leader and I

always love learning from strong females. Today's questions are going to be really fun, David.

Are you ready for them? I'm ready. Let's go.

Question number one. You ask Michelle how she goes about evaluating a team. And her answer kind of surprised me.

She said that rather than thinking about evaluating her team, she thinks more about defining the

vision of where the organization is going and making sure that vision is unified across her

entire team. David, how should leaders think about evaluating a team

and defining a vision? I mean, are those two things inherently linked? I really think they are

linked. And the way how I like to think about it is that every leader should think about the

tasks that they have in hand by thinking about strategy

and then structure and then the culture. You have to define what your vision is, what your

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