3 More Questions (Klaus Kleinfeld) with David Novak and Koula Callahan

Happy Monday, everybody, and welcome to another edition of Three More Questions, where we put David Novak in the hot seat and get his takes on what he discussed with the previous week's guest. David, great to see you. Great to see you as well, Kula. Today we're debriefing the conversation that you had with Klaus Kleinfeld, who I am awarding as the man with the most interesting name. that you've ever interviewed on the podcast.

I love saying his name, Klaus Kleinfeld. And I also love in the lightning round with Klaus, he says that his most profitable business ever was actually dressing up as Santa Claus when he was younger, when he was like a a young boy. Klaus a Santa Claus. I thought that was amazing. Santa Claus.

Get it, everybody. Well, Klaus is the former CEO of Siemens and Alcoa, and he's the type of leader who really understands the importance and the value of motivating your team and making motivation a key piece of your culture. Yeah, I think you want to have people pumped up, coming to work every day, wanting to do something that's exciting and uh He really realizes that and and uh understands that human capital is just as important, if not more important, than the financial capital. In fact, it's the human capital and how people feel that's what really drives your business and gets you to have the profitability you're looking for in the end anyway.

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