3 More Questions (Steve Duncker) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: What advice would you give to someone in a large firm looking to differentiate themselves while also being a team player? What would you have done in Steve's situation where he went from an incredibly strong company to one on the brink of bankruptcy? What do you believe has made Steve successful in these different industries, and what can other leaders learn from it? ——— 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 Cula Callahan, here to bring you another edition of three more questions with David Novak.
0:10.0	David, it's so good to see you. How are you today?
0:12.0	I'm doing great, Cula, and how are you?
0:14.0	I'm fantastic. It's an exciting time around here at How Leaders Lead with your new book coming out and all of the press
0:21.7	that you're getting for it. So it's been a fun and exciting few weeks here at How Leaders Lead
0:27.1	HQ. I think you can get pretty confused between how leaders lead and how leaders learn.
0:33.1	You know, and How Leaders Learn is the book. Master the Hab habits of the most successful people in the world.
0:38.7	It's all about learning, something that I did throughout my career and try to continue to do today.
0:43.4	So anyway, it is book week and we're excited about it.
0:47.4	We certainly are. And today's three more questions episode, we're going to talk about a leader who is certainly an active learner.
0:53.8	We're debriefing your conversation with Steve Dunker.
0:57.0	He's the former chairman of the New York Racing Association, which operates the three
1:01.2	largest thoroughbred horse racing tracks in the state of New York.
1:05.0	This guy is wildly entertaining.
1:07.4	His career has been extremely varied, and the conversation between the two of you
1:12.0	is fantastic. Well, thanks, cool. I, you know, Steve's a good friend of mine. He's just an
1:17.9	excellent leader, knows how to work across many different industries with many different
1:23.9	types of people. And you're right. He's constantly learning. He absolutely is.
1:28.8	I'm excited to get into today's questions for our episode of three more questions. Here we go,
1:34.6	David. All right. Fire away.
1:40.5	Question number one. Before he took over as chairman of the New York Racing Association,
1:45.3	Steve worked at Goldman Sachs and became partner in the firm at a relatively young age. You asked
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