We want to change the world by creating better leaders and we believe to be the best leader you can be requires that you are both Heartwired® and Hardwired®. What do we mean by that? Heartwiring® is building passionate commitment …
Leveraging David Novak Leadership as Your Personal Mentor
By: Gregg Dedrick, Co-Founder & President of David Novak Leadership Imagine you are the best leader you can be. Think about your leadership style. What do you do that makes your team successful? How do you lead others? How would …
Whose Shoulders Do You Stand On?
By: Gregg Dedrick, Co-Founder & President of David Novak Leadership Have you ever considered whose shoulders you stand on? What did these people do to invest in your life? How did they influence you to become the leader you are …
Where Do You Draw The Line? Balancing Work Relationships
Most leaders want to be liked by their team members, yet some have a difficult time drawing the line between personal and professional relationships in the workplace. As a leader, you don’t want to seem unapproachable or standoffish; but you …
Two Tips For Managing a Part Time Team
There are tons of benefits to have part-time employees: they reduce the workload of your full-time staff and when you can’t afford to add more full-time employees, part-time workers provide the skills needed without breaking the budget. While there are …
Why Identifying Your True North Makes You a More Effective Leader
By: Gregg Dedrick, Co-Founder & President of David Novak Leadership What is your True North as a leader? Tough question, I know. Identifying your True North requires hard work, and then intense determination to stay the course when people or …
To Achieve Big Goals, Become A Know-How Junkie
By: David Novak, Co-Founder & CEO of David Novak Leadership What’s your leadership mindset? Do you believe that you have to know more than everyone else on the team? Effective leaders know they don’t have all the answers. They approach …
How To Overcome The Most Frequent Leadership Mistake
What’s your leadership mindset? Do you believe that you have to know more than everyone else on the team? Effective leaders know they don’t have all the answers. They approach each day with the mindset that there is always more …
5 Tips for Getting Noticed at Work
By: David Novak, Co-Founder & CEO of David Novak Leadership Every year more than 300 college athletes are invited to participate in the NFL Scouting Combine. These athletes will go through rigorous physical and mental testing. They will be challenged, …
Learn From My Crystal Pepsi Mistake
By: David Novak, Co-Founder & CEO of David Novak Leadership Welcome back, Crystal Pepsi! Those are four words I never expected to say, or write for that matter, considering I was responsible for the original Crystal Pepsi launch in 1992. …
How To Grow As a Leader
Leadership: It’s a quality hiring managers look for when interviewing potential employees; classes are taught on it, and books are written about it; organizations can’t function without it. Leadership skills are a crucial asset that will most certainly help you …
The Secret to an Effective Leadership Strategy
You can be an amazing communicator, have a great team surrounding you, be an expert in your field, but if you can’t figure out how to reach your organization’s goals, you probably won’t last long as a leader. Setting a …
Follow Indra Nooyi’s example: Become a leader people are excited to follow
Report of CNBC Make It – Leadership | David Novak | @DavidNovakOGO 7:00 AM ET Wed, 12 Sept 2018 Leaders have a lot of power and influence. And people follow the example of what leaders do more so than what …
Be Your Best Self
How often have you been encouraged to just be yourself? You get this coaching from others throughout your life and while it sounds good, and could even be considered helpful, it’s often easier said than done. Fear can creep in. You might feel tempted to conform and fit in rather than be true to yourself. You wrestle. I personally believe that in reality, it’s much harder to be yourself than most people are willing to admit.
How top CEOs turned adversity into an advantage
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, faced the 2008 financial crisis with no guarantee that the financial industry or America would recover… Indra Nooyi, former chairman and CEO of Pepsico, moved from India to the United States and often felt like a “fish out of water” because she struggled to fit in… Brian Cornell, chairman and CEO of Target, had a humble upbringing. His dad died when he was young, so Brian worked lots of odd jobs as a kid to make money for things he needed…
