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Keith Lucas

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305 total appearances

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Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

Another one is once you find it, now you're ready to scale or when you're entering a new market or when you are pivoting.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

So the key point is that the organizational structure serves the mission, not the other way around.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

I agree.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

To be clear, they're both damaging just in slightly different ways.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And I'll take the high talent disruptor first.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

So this is someone who's really exceptional in one of two ways, but who really doesn't align with the values.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And the person causes friction.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And so it's a constant assessment for this kind of person, the exceptional person who doesn't align with your values.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

There's a constant assessment of whether the benefit

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

is worth the cost.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And I'll give you a quick example.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

I worked with someone one time who basically worked like five to six hours a day.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

But he was an expert in his field.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

He built a core piece of technology that was mission critical.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And he was actually otherwise a great team member aligning on a lot of our values, just not the work all day value that we

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

that most companies have.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

We always made the assessment that the benefit outweighed the cost.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And what I think would have been helpful at the time was making that assessment.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

And you can do this.

Code Story: Insights from Startup Tech Leaders
Impact: How to Inspire, Align and Amplify Innovative Teams with Keith Lucas

You make the case to anyone who thinks it's unfair.