3 More Questions (Zak Brown) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

How Leaders Lead with David Novak

David Novak Leadership

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8 • 596 Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: What’s the most interesting thing you learned about F1 racing from your interview with Zak? What do you think about clarity beating the consensus in high pressure moments? How does a leader ensure that every person on the team is tied to the overall performance of the organization? ——— 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. It's Monday, which means it's time for another edition of three more
0:08.9	questions with David Novak. David, we've got a really fun conversation to debrief today because
0:13.5	we're talking about your discussion with the CEO of McLaren Racing. He's Zach Brown.
0:19.9	And I am so glad that we had him on the show because now I feel
0:23.9	like I actually have something to contribute when all of my friends are talking about F1 racing,
0:28.2	because that's all anyone can talk about right now. Yeah, absolutely. And, you know, Brad Pitt's new
0:32.5	movie is out and everybody's going to that and loving it. I got to have this opportunity to talk to Zach because of my good friend, Jeff Yang, who
0:42.2	told me about Zach, and he said, you got to meet this guy.
0:45.2	You know, he's incredible.
0:47.0	And as it turns out, I'd actually met Zach years ago when I was running marketing at Pizza Hut,
0:53.2	and he was trying to sell me a NASCAR sponsorship.
0:56.2	And I probably wouldn't smart enough to figure out that that was what I should do.
0:59.8	In fact, I didn't.
1:01.5	But at any rate, you can't win them all.
1:03.8	But he's a heck of a leader.
1:05.1	And I know why Jeff wanted me to talk to him because he knows how to lead people.
1:09.5	He knows how to innovate. and he just knows the business
1:13.8	ticks only when you get everybody moving on the same page. Absolutely, David. Well,
1:19.1	rev up your engine because we're about to drive into the questions that we got teed up for you
1:24.4	today. So rev up your engines, Kola. Let's go.
1:31.4	Question number one, David, I have to ask you this.
1:34.6	What is the most interesting thing that you learned about F1 racing that you didn't know
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