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Hey, everyone, welcome to another five minute leader still in Palm Beach. And today's video is all about this idea that leaders are very much like athletes. And I was remembering a conversation that I had, I believe it was David Novak, the former CEO of yum brands. And when he was the CEO, the company had around 1.5 million employees. And I'm pretty sure it was David who told me the story that he has a pillow, on his bed, and on the pillow embroidered, it has the word plan on it.
And what David told me is that one of the things that he would do as a leader is the night before, he would look at his calendar. And you can do this, by the way, the night before or the morning of he would look at his calendar, he would see all the things that he has to do. And he would just sit there for minutes and visualize his day, he would visualize all the meetings that he's gonna go through, he would visualize all the people that he is going to be engaging with, or debating with or arguing with or meeting with. And he would visualize how he wanted those conversations to go and what he wanted his day to look like.
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