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The Playbook With David Meltzer

Elizabeth Zucker: YPO Chairman and Managing Partner at Interior Investments | #ThePlaybook 273

The Playbook With David Meltzer

David Meltzer, Entrepreneur.com

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2020

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Elizabeth Zucker, 2019-2020 YPO Chairman and Managing Partner at Interior Investments, talks about why so many young executives seek an environment of peers and discusses the two most common traits she has seen in the most successful leaders.  Zucker and host of #ThePlaybook, David Meltzer, chat about the importance of putting yourself in a judgement-free environment in order to grow, and why there is such a wide range of “recipes for success” that work for business leaders. The pair also share their thoughts on how Young Presidents Organization has been able to scale worldwide and empower leaders to be the best version of themselves.

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0:00.0

On this episode of the playbook I have Elizabeth Zucker. She is the YPO chairman and

0:05.8

managing partner at Interior Investments and you're going to learn the skills that it takes to lead others.

0:13.2

Join me for all of this and more on the playbook.

0:16.8

This is Entrepreneurs the Playbook,

0:19.1

where each week I bring you some of the greatest athletes, celebrities, and entrepreneurs to talk

0:24.7

about their personal and professional playbook to success and what made them

0:29.1

champions on the field and in the boardroom. I'm your host David Melzer.

0:34.6

This is Dave Melter and welcome to Entrepreneurs the Playbook. I have one of my

0:39.8

favorite leaders on the playbook. It is Elizabeth Zucker YPO and

0:44.3

chairman of YPO which is extraordinary and managing partner of Interior

0:48.9

Investments. Welcome to the playbook Elizabeth. Thank you, thank you for having me.

0:54.2

You know, I've had a few people from YPO,

0:56.9

I've worked with YPO for years, I'm now too old for YPO.

1:00.8

But I think a lot of people I want to start with as a chairman of YPO don't know about the importance of mentorship

1:07.3

about the aggregate of who you hang out with about what we learn through the experience even virtually of hanging out with people who share or have

1:15.5

situational knowledge and relationship capital that we can utilize. Can you give us just a little bit of

1:20.2

background on the value that you find in YPO as an organization? bit of

1:23.2

background on the value that you find in YPO as an organization.

1:25.8

Absolutely. I think a majority of our CEOs join YPO seeking peerdom

1:32.4

specifically they want to be with others like them. So those in which

1:36.7

were successful at an early age, you mentioned you're too old for YPO. It's, we often get challenged about our age barrier. And one of the things

1:47.0

that I feel like makes YPO unique is that it's success at an early age. That being said, a huge part of joining YPO is

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