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Sep 8, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
Expert Opinion By , Founder, Lighthouse Consulting If you're a senior leader right now, then, like most leaders, you face a daunting, seemingly endless barrage of challenges. As this new abnormal becomes the norm, a growing number of leaders are learning to thrive in it. Others, however, have had their worst nightmare come true, losing their jobs because they didn't know how to handle this new breed of uncertainty. Blaming uncertainty itself makes for a poor excuse.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
inc-aus.com | Larry Robertson
Pursuing or promising predictability is the undoing of most leaders. Here’s how to change that. If there is one thing about the current environment — business, political, economic, environmental — we can all agree on, it’s that it’s deeply uncertain. The past few weeks in U.S. national politics alone bear that out, not to mention amplify it. It’s interesting, however, what we do with that common knowledge.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
Expert Opinion By , Founder, Lighthouse Consulting The benefits of hybrid work versus traditional all-the-time-in-the-office work have been a hotly debated topic for several years now. Though some companies have allowed a degree of remote digital work for years if not decades, the pandemic pushed the question and the debate, to the forefront for all companies.
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Jun 4, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
Expert Opinion By , Founder, Lighthouse Consulting Feeling uncreative, un-leader-like, and unable to solve the ever-increasing complexity of navigating the new abnormal that is our world right now? Maybe you need a whack on the side of the head. No, really, though also not quite how you might first think. There are some books on my bookshelf I find evergreen, their lessons continuing to resonate even as times change.
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May 7, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
Expert Opinion By , Founder, Lighthouse Consulting Whenever I work with senior leaders, I always ask this question: Why does your business exist? It's not a question most leaders think about, let alone can answer easily.
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Apr 15, 2024 | 
channellife.com.au | Larry Robertson
In the vanguard of technological innovation, the mantle of leadership carries weightier responsibilities than in decades past. As the world becomes increasingly digital, the archetypes of effective leadership are being redefined. No longer confined to the traditional pedagogies of university classrooms, today's technology leaders must chart new courses through complex digital landscapes.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
Expert Opinion By , Founder, Lighthouse Consulting Every year, March Madness brings back a chance to learn. Turns out it's the same lesson every year: Styles makes fights. What it means is this: When two forces meet -- forces with very different assets, ideas, and ways of operating -- anything is possible and, more profound, nothing can be counted on.
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Feb 4, 2024 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
At the start of a new year, we focus on doing better -- better than last year, better than the competition, better than our best. We start out feeling resolved and tally a to-do list for ourselves. It's perfunctory -- we note habits we know we need to change or start and things we need to fix in our work, our leadership, and our lives. We pledge to do those things, then work to check off the list and change our ways.
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
inc.com | Larry Robertson
By Larry Robertson, Founder, Lighthouse Consulting@lrspeaks"I didn't see that coming." "It was right under our noses." Each of these declarations describes a moment of realization so familiar, sometimes it only takes but a single word to convey ... Clearcut. Manifest. Unmistakable. That last one hurts most. It suggests a mistake, but also something more, and worse: missing the obvious, the thing, you tell yourself, you can't mistake.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
theceomagazine.com | Larry Robertson |Michael Fingland |Donna McGeorge |Tyneshia Dise
Organizational success starts at the top. The quality of leadership has the biggest impact on the bottom line. Successful businesses are those with good leadership. But there’s a serious problem. Businesses around the globe are facing an urgent need for leadership improvement. According to a report, leaders account for at least 70 percent of the variance in employee engagement scores.
