On today's show, we are interviewing the former CEO of Yum Brands.

You know, Taco Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, he was the CEO of that organization.

However, my interest in David Novak started many, many years ago.

You see, back in the day, I was reading this incredible book about how to become a more

effective manager and leader, that the book was titled The Education of an

Accidental CEO. And the book was written by the CEO of Yum Brands at the time,

David Novak. David Novak in OVAK. And the book was just a real page turner.

You know, I'm a guy who believes the more you learn, the more you earn. And so I was

just flying through this book where David shares how he was able to double the

size of the restaurants to 41,000 worldwide restaurants. And he was able to grow

the company's market capitalization from $4 billion to $32 billion. And so you

can imagine my excitement and nervousness when David Novak agreed to be on

today's show. And so I didn't want to waste this opportunity. And so I asked

David about everything I've ever wanted to ask him, including how did he go

from living in a trailer park to becoming the CEO of one of America's largest

companies? You know, people would say, well, how could you live in a trailer and

travel around like that? Well, I thought everybody did it. You know, what's really

funny is that even now, no matter how big the house is, when I get together with

my two sisters and my mom and dad, who I'm blessed that they're still alive at

90 years old, you know, we all sit on the same sofa clumped up against each other.

I asked David directly, what are the keys to getting promoted?

Early on in my career, I really tried to outwork everybody and I would get in at

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