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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Neil Blumenthal and Dave Gilboa) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How can leaders eliminate silos and bureaucracy so that the right information gets to each department in the company? What advice can you give leaders about how to price their products competitively? Where should leaders look when they’re trying to innovate while also staying true to their core brand and product? ——— 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

0:08.9

questions with David Novak. It's great to be back with you, David. It sure is fun to be with you,

0:13.9

Kula, and I'm looking forward to this debriefing of my conversation I had with Neil Blumenthal

0:19.3

and Dave Gilboa. They're co-CEOs of Warby Parker.

0:24.0

And I think the glasses I'm wearing right now came from Warby Parker. Well, they look great on you, David.

0:29.5

Well, thank you, cool. I love listening to this conversation. Like you said, they're co-CEOs. And that's a

0:36.7

structure. You really don't find that

0:38.1

often in companies as big as Warby Parker. If you haven't listened to their episode and how they

0:43.4

make that partnership work as co-CEOs, I highly recommend going back and listening to the episode.

0:49.1

It'll certainly inspire you to lead your team.

0:52.9

You know, Kula, one of the things that I really understood after

0:56.2

talking to these two guys is why they've made the co-CEO work, you know, because they don't put

1:02.5

their ego into the business. They're very humble. They understand each other's strengths.

1:08.4

They really communicate to each other all the time, and they trust each other.

1:14.2

And, you know, all they want to do is make Warby Parker better. And, you know, I think that that

1:20.4

organization and their culture has got to feel their bond. And I think that that is cascaded up and down their organization. And I only

1:30.4

see very powerful things for them in the future because of their mindset and their focus on growth.

1:36.4

Absolutely, David. And that's a great tee up for our first question of today's episode. So let's

1:41.7

get going with it. All right, fire away.

1:48.7

Question number one.

1:52.3

Neil and Dave believe that part of their competitive advantage is that their data and information flows quickly

1:55.6

across their entire company.

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