
Robert Glazer
Host at Elevate with Robert Glazer
CEO, Acceleration Partners and Columnist at Freelance
Founder & Board Chairman @accelerationpar Serial Entrepreneur Keynote Speaker #1 Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author https://t.co/FX4hAOR8zf
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1 week ago |
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Last week, I received an email that stopped me in my tracks. It came from someone I’d met briefly years ago. He was a college student helping organize an entrepreneurship event at Babson College where I was speaking. Interestingly, his note to me had nothing to do with what I said on stage that day. Instead, what he remembered most was how I arrived.
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Every so often, life presents an inflection point—a moment when you need to reassess almost everything. That shift often comes after stepping away from something that’s been a defining part of your identity. For me, that moment was exiting my business. A few years ago, I brought on an investment partner and sold a substantial portion of the company I’d spent 15 years building and leading. The next year, I turned over the CEO role to my long-time number two.
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2 weeks ago |
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We humans like to think of ourselves as rational decision-makers, but more often than not, our emotions are driving the bus. If you know this, you already know a lot. This is especially true in leadership and management. Our gut instincts and personal feelings about people often override situational data.
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2 weeks ago |
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Years ago, I asked a CEO for a meeting. He agreed, on one condition: he asked me to meet him for a hike, as that was the only setting in which he took external meetings. I thought of this recently as I sat through an hourlong meeting with someone who, frankly, I should not have met. I’m generally a good screener for people who ask for my time, but this person slipped through my filter under misleading pretenses for the meeting.
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3 weeks ago |
robertglazer.substack.com | Robert Glazer
I’m going to veer into politics today. Rather than taking a side, I’ll instead highlight an increasingly common tendency for people to apply laws and norms through the lens of their ideology. This mindset is not just dangerous for society—it’s antithetical to leadership and has created many of the problems we’re embroiled in today. I’m guessing that most people reading this Friday Forward newsletter live in societies built on laws that provide structure, protect rights, and create order.
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