What a CEO Learned from Warren Buffett

The US government and governments all over the world have played some active role in the day to day decision making at businesses for years. What we haven’t seen, though, is the US government take active equity stakes in businesses and so directly shape the capital allocation dec ...  Show more

The dominant story of the past week has been the wave of leaders in the AI space warning about the pace of frontier models and their fear of them getting “out of control”. While that may be true, there may be other reasons why they’re all sounding the alarm at this precise moment ...  Show more

David Novak: How Leaders Learn David Novak is Co-Founder and the retired Chairman and CEO of Yum! Brands, the world’s largest restaurant company. During his tenure as CEO, Yum! Brands became a global powerhouse, growing from $4 billion in market cap to over $32 billion. After ret ...  Show more

David Novak, co-founder and former CEO of Yum! Brands, joins host Jeff Berman to share lessons from scaling one of the world’s largest restaurant companies. Hear how his focus on listening, team recognition, and taking big swings helped grow a fast food empire to a $32 billion ma ...  Show more

After 15 years leading the parent company of KFC, Pizza Hut, and Taco Bell, David Novak wanted to help others become better leaders. He believes the key is to put learning at the center of everything you do, whether you’re an entry-level worker or a multinational executive. Novak ...  Show more

On this episode of 3 More Questions, you'll hear David Novak's answers to: How can leaders get better at making the tough decisions they need to make? How'd you get up-to-speed in terms of working with Wall Street when you became CEO of Yum! Brands? How can a leader build this ...  Show more