By: Gregg Dedrick, President and Co-Founder of David Novak Leadership “Just do it!” I bet you’re familiar with this Nike slogan that encourages us to take action. While this can be good advice, I believe it’s important for organizations to …
The Two Things You Need To Be a Complete Leader
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 …
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.
Five Behaviors of Great Leaders
When you think of great leaders who comes to mind? Do you think of historical people like Abraham Lincoln, Dr. Martin Luther King or John F. Kennedy? Maybe you think of leaders of powerful companies like Jamie Dimon or Indra …
6 Daily Routines of Successful Leaders
One of the powerful secrets of effective leaders is establishing daily rituals or success routines. These leaders identify a few key behaviors that are important to them, and then they Hardwire, or put process and discipline around the behaviors, so …
Leadership, Horse Racing and the Triple Crown
By: David Novak, Co-Founder & CEO of David Novak Leadership Donna is an expert in the horse racing field. She rode for 11 ½ years and retired in 1998 as the second leading female jockey in the country by money …
Why Great Leaders Need Truth Tellers
Were your antennae clipped at birth? This is not your typical leadership question, but let’s consider how helpful this question can be. Antennae provide sensory information to insects which helps them better understand their environment. While humans don’t have actual …
Why You Need to Heartwire AND Hardwire Your Leadership
An internet search for “Leadership Failure” comes back with pages and pages of results. Yet success is totally possible if you know and practice a secret I discovered while serving as Co-founder and CEO of Yum! Brands, one of the world’s largest restaurant companies, operating in over 130 countries. The secret is called heartwiring AND hardwiring your leadership.