Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
- Scott Farquhar Co-founder of Atlassian
- Mike Cannon-Brookes Co-founder of Atlassian
- Oprah Winfrey
- Ari Weinzweig Co-founder of Zingerman’s
- Paul Saginaw Co-founder of Zingerman’s
- Frank Carollo Co-founder of Zingerman’s
- Maggie Bayless Co-founder of Zingerman’s
When business started difficulties overcame:
“funding, it’s always a challenge. But I think for me my biggest challenge was naivety… I was absolutely within the E myth. I believe that should we create an awesome product, the universe would bless us with their money and attention and their accolades and off we would go. And I find actually that’s a really common myth that persists still today… I thought I could just focus on the product and ignore the business system part of the business. And that took me many years to recover from.”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
- The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz and Janet Mills
- Liminal Thinking: Create the Change You Want by Changing the Way You Think Book by Dave Gray
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High Book by Kerry Patterson and Joseph Grenny
Favourite Quote:
“The day is always (hers or) his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Recommended Online Resources:
- Mind Tools – Use MindTools com resources to learn more than 2,700 management, leadership and personal effectiveness skills, helping you to be happy and successful at work
- First Round Capital Blog – the first VC run publication providing actionable insights from the top people in technology
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“I think it’s really important to learn the rules of the game and then be very sure that you actually want to play it. Entrepreneurship is not the same as craftsmanship. That was a mistake I made when I started I thought that craftsmanship was going to get me there. It’s not the same thing. It’s not the same thing as leadership and it’s not mainly about innovation. All of those things matter but your success will depend more on either developing or buying or being given systems that make the 90% of what is the same for everyone go” …[Listen for More]
More About Elise Keith:
- Lucid Meetings
- Second Rise LLC
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Within our emotions lie answers, truths and instructions.” Sam Owen
Other Quotes From the Chat with Elise Keith:
- “in our founding bylaws we wrote in as a multi-founder company mechanisms for dealing with conflict and mechanisms for exiting the business so that when we as founders found that our own path’s needed to diverged we could do so without hating each other later”
- “there is this concept of distributed cognition and I wish I had understood that better. The concept here is that no one person actually knows as much as they think they know….”
- “I love change, I wish to bring the change”
- “Keep the great aims in mind and go after them with some serenity”
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