David Novak - Taking People With You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen

David Novak is a great CEO. A lot of people claim to be good people managers, but David has actually made the investment to train the next generation of leaders at Yum! You will enjoy Taking People with You for its commonsense approach to, well, taking people with you.

Jeffrey Immelt, chairman and CEO, General Electric

David Novak is an inspiring leader and a very astute student of the art of management.

Steve Burke, CEO, NBCUniversal

David Novak has led Yum! Brands to achieve phenomenal business performance. He has accomplished this by being a word-class leader/teacher. His book is a very readable and energizing hat trick combining a compelling personal leadership narrative, great case examples, and pragmatic tools for others to use to build winning organizations.

Noel Tichy, professor and director, Global Citizenship Initiative at the University of Michigan, and coauthor with Warren Bennis of Judgment: How Winning Leaders Make Great Calls

Taking People with You is recommended reading for anyone who wants to learn more about leadership. Whether you want to grow a business or just grow as a person, David Novaks book contains valuable lessons on how to perform at your best and help others do the same.

Andrew C. Taylor, chairman and CEO, Enterprise Holdings

Davids career is replete with excellent accomplishments in motivating teams and large organizations to achieve the extraordinary. Yum! Brands is a great example. This how-to book distills these lessons so they can easily be adopted by any organization. Just excellent!

David Cote, chairman and CEO, Honeywell

No one exemplifies dedicated personal leadership better than David. He has taught a class in leadership for many years and now is sharing those lessons in his book, Taking People with You. David shares his strategies for the kind of meaningful leadership that can move an organization forward and provides examples from his own career and from many other companies including Johnson & Johnson. I highly recommend Taking People with You for leaders at all levels in every organization. William C. Weldon, chairman and CEO, Johnson & Johnson

Over the course of my nearly thirty-five-year career, Ive worked with many different executives. Few are true leaders. David Novak is one of those rare individuals. Whether you are just starting your career or have already climbed a few rungs, the lessons taught in Taking People with You are dead on and should be universally embraced by anyone who wants to get ahead in business or in life. You cant do it alone. And the ride is a whole lot more interesting when youre surrounded by bright people who constantly and respectfully challenge one another to do their best. Howard Draft, executive chairman, Draftfcb

Great leaders understand their leadership point of view and are willing to share it with others. Thats what David Novak has done for years with Yum! Brands, Inc.and we are now fortunate enough to have him share his winning philosophies with us. Im a big David Novak fan and you will be, too, after reading Taking People with Youa must read!

Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One MinuteManager and Lead with LUV

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