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How Leaders Lead with David Novak

3 More Questions (Will Guidara) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8596 Ratings

🗓️ 22 July 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: What’s your advice to leaders who struggle with wanting to control every part of their business? How do you know and then come to terms with the fact that the result you want is unlikely? What’s your take on Will's advice to pick the person you want to work for – not the company you want to work for? ——— 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.

0:10.0

David, it's so great to be back with you. How you doing?

0:13.0

I'm doing really well, but man, is it hot? I mean, this is a hot summer.

0:18.0

That is what everyone is saying. It's certainly a hot summer and we've got a

0:22.3

hot topic to talk about today. Oh, good transition, cooler. I just set you up. That was such a

0:28.3

softball. You couldn't even screw it up. Oh, man. Well, we do have a hot topic to talk about today.

0:33.5

And it's your conversation with Will Godera. He's the former owner of 11 Madison Park,

0:38.6

which under his leadership became the number one restaurant in the world. He also has a New York

0:44.5

Times bestselling book called Unreasonable Hospitality, which is really all about empowering

0:50.0

your people to help your customers really feel seen. And I love this episode, David. I heard a

0:56.6

quote recently that said, people won't remember what you say. They'll remember how you make them

1:01.7

feel. And I think Will is really a leader who puts that into practice. Well, I think in the

1:07.1

restaurant business, you learn very quickly, the only way you have any hope for success

1:11.1

is that you've got to have fantastic people and you have to make them feel appreciated and that's

1:16.8

what i think he means by making people feel seen because when you're seeing someone is watching you

1:23.4

and just by watching people and letting them know that you value what they do, it's like the gold in any organization.

1:30.7

Well, this episode is fantastic.

1:32.5

If you haven't listened to it, definitely go back in the feed and give it a listen.

1:35.8

Also, if you're a fan of The Bear on Hulu, I've loved the show.

1:40.6

Will is also a co-producer on that TV show.

1:43.5

It's amazing.

1:45.7

You should watch it. And you should listen to the podcast episode with David and Will. For today, though, we're going to dive into

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