Robert Glazer is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency and the recipient of numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ Choice Awards two years in a row. He is the author of the global bestselling book “Performance Partnerships” and the WSJ & USA Today Bestseller, “Elevate.”
His newest book “Friday Forward” is based on learnings from his highly successful newsletter, and is in stores now. Check it out! https://www.amazon.com/Elevate-Beyond-Limits-Success-Yourself/dp/1492691488 .
This Episode’s Heavy-Hitter’s:
- Robert started out as a pretty risk-averse person earlier in his career-- which led him to launch Acceleration Partners to hedge some of that risk while still remaining part of startup culture.
- Figuring out his core values was central to Robert’s life and career. The experience was so powerful that he decided to make a course that helped others enact that same change in their lives.
- A big part of those core values is thinking hard about what goals you want-- too many people spend years working long hours to buy a beach house for family vacations-- just to get divorced and alienated from their family in the process.
- Don’t burn your bridges-- Robert invests time and money at Acceleration Partners to make sure his employees leave on the best terms possible in their transition to the next step in their career.
- Robert is a big believer of action over perfection, and we talk about how that mantra has led him to reach his goal of becoming a best-selling author and not succumbing to his tendencies as a perfectionist.
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1:39 - Early days of Robert Glazer
3:09 - Key Lessons learned
4:12 - How to be prepared for a Business world
5:53 - Culture resonates with Company's values
7:57 - How to make somebody feel valued
9:14 - Alignment of Recruitment process with values
11:00 - Consistency is important
12:26 - Learn from your mistakes / Disaster Hiring
13:28 - Consensus in Hiring
14:33 - Quality Hire
15:10 - Robert Glazer's Core Values
17:12 - Alignment in the long run
18:40 - Self Awareness
19:30 - Robert Glazer's Book
21:14 - The TedX Experience
21:42 - Dynamic of a Relationship / Job Satisfaction
24:32 - Burning Bridges
26:22 - Client Service Relationship / Manage Expectations
27:01- Hardest part of writing process
28:14 - Greatest Impact
29:05 - Greatest Piece of Advice
30:02 - Personal/Professional Silver Lining
31:13 - Robert Glazer's North Star