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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Walter Driver) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 12 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: What were some of your best recruiting strategies when you were hiring for key positions at Yum! Brands? How should Founder/CEOs be thinking about mergers and acquisitions? What’s your take on the importance of learning how to manage your inner world? ——— 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 questions with David Novak.

0:10.7

It's great to be back with you, David. How you doing today?

0:13.3

I'm doing really well and look forward to debriefing our conversation with Walter Driver, the founder and CEO of Scoply, which is a billion-dollar online

0:22.9

gaming company. And this is a leader who's really thought about the kind of culture he wants,

0:29.0

what kind of organization he wants, people he wants to have in it, and he's very, very thoughtful.

0:34.4

He's very thoughtful. That conversation was a fascinating one to listen in on.

0:37.8

So if you haven't listened to the entire episode, definitely go back and listen to it in the feed.

0:43.3

Before we get into the questions, so David, I got to ask you, are you a closet gamer?

0:47.5

No, but I do play gin rummy with my granddaughter.

0:52.5

Well, I guess that counts as gaming, even though it's not Walter Driver's type of gaming.

0:57.0

But like I said, definitely go back, give that episode a listen.

1:00.2

He's built an incredible company.

1:02.1

For today, though, I've got three questions that are going to debrief this episode.

1:05.9

Are you ready, David?

1:07.2

I am.

1:07.7

And by the way, just a little bit more on the gaming piece.

1:13.9

I love monopoly. And by the way, just a little bit more on the gaming piece. I love Monopoly. And there's a Monopoly mobile game that Walter and his team developed at Scopely that's just absolutely

1:20.3

killing it. And that's what he's doing. He's taking these iconic properties and bringing them

1:26.3

into the 21st century the way how people want to play

1:30.1

today and the way how people want to have fun.

1:36.3

Question number one. Flosser's focus has always been creating an environment where the

1:40.9

most talented people want to work. He believes that when you're creating a

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