Larry Robertson

Larry Robertson is an innovation advisor who works, writes, and guides at the nexus of creativity, leadership, and entrepreneurship. As founder of Lighthouse Consulting, he has for three decades guided entrepreneurial ventures and their leaders through growth to lasting success. In 2021, he was named a Fulbright Scholar, a rarity for a non-academic professional. He is the author of three award-winning books: The Language Of Man: Learning to Speak Creativity and A Deliberate Pause: Entrepreneurship and Its Moment in Human Progress, and his third and newest book, Rebel Leadership: How to Thrive in Uncertain Times. His books have been mentioned in the CEOWORLD magazine Best Books List for 2021.

Larry Robertson is an opinion columnist for the CEOWORLD magazine. You can follow him on LinkedIn. For more information, visit the author’s website.

CEO Agenda

Your Recipe for Success Needs a Dash of Humility

CEO AgendaLarry Robertson

Here in the United States, last month’s Super Bowl is long over. Its headline stories have been told and retold, its heroes decided, and its lessons have already taken back to locker rooms and front offices for next year’s planning. Sometimes, however, it’s the stories that get overlooked that impart...

CEO Journal

Stop Mandating Culture and Start ‘Chatting Like No One Is Listening’

CEO JournalLarry Robertson

What’s the key to success in business? It’s what all leaders hope to find out and pursue. For years, when asked this question, leaders have been unambiguous in their answer: Culture. As but one example, a whopping 94% of executives in a Deloitte study said they believed that a distinct...

Tech and Innovation

For Leaders, The Central Problem of 2021 was a Lack of Centering

Tech and InnovationLarry Robertson

Consider this thought: As leaders, as organizations, we’re doing too much. A related and more troubling thought: Many leaders have in fact lost our way. Far from speculation, according to a number of studies those are among the dominant themes of the last year. As leaders close out the current...

CEO Advisory

How Valuable Is Your MVP? The Answer Isn’t Invaluable

CEO AdvisoryLarry Robertson

Here in the United States, there’s been a lot of news lately about professional football – American football, that is. Yet, even if you’re not a fan or follower of the sport, the storyline is all too familiar and worthy of your attention – especially if you are a senior...

Success and Leadership

Do You Want Your Business Strategy to Succeed? Change the Word ‘Business’ to ‘Human’

Success and LeadershipLarry Robertson

Right now, leaders across the globe are trying to figure out their strategy. A pandemic-scarred world that isn’t quite post-pandemic makes this extremely difficult. The landscape is volatile. Solutions seem to demand a complexity equal to the complexity of the environment. And the clues to what tomorrow will bring are...

Executive Insider

The Surprisingly Powerful Force that Keeps Leaders Successful and Relevant

Executive InsiderLarry Robertson

One of the hardest parts to being a leader is freshness. It’s not a term we typically use when talking about effective leadership, but it’s always there. We tend to focus instead on the many forms it takes, the freshness of ideas, for example. It’s there in other forms too,...

Executive Insider

What It Means to Succeed: The ‘Never Done’ Truth About Leading Yourself and Your Team to Victory

Executive InsiderLarry Robertson

Over the course of the past three weeks, the International Olympic Committee and this year’s host Japan have doled out hundreds of bronze, silver, and gold medals – symbols given to athletes for reaching the height of human achievement in whatever sport they’ve dedicated years to being the best. Long...

Education and Career

Crazy as it Sounds, 3 Simple Moves are Your Key to Navigating an Uncertain Landscape

Education and CareerLarry Robertson

Metaphors can be powerful. “She has a heart of gold.” “All the world’s a stage.” We hear a good one and like magic an image or idea from an entirely different zone can suddenly shed new light on a challenge or opportunity we face in our own zone that has...

CEO Agenda

Once Treated as a Nice-to-have, Soft Skill, Wise Leaders Know Emotional Intelligence Is Central to Business Strategy and Success

CEO AgendaLarry Robertson

With the deluge of news stories, you’re to be forgiven if you missed the recent news of tennis star Naomi Osaka dropping out of the French Open – not for reasons of physical injury, but something less often talked about. When she announced her decision, Osaka said it was a...

Education and Career

The Efficiency Fallacy, and the Importance of Resilience

Education and CareerLarry Robertson

A very long time ago I learned a simple rule of thumb that has countless times proved itself true: The best lessons, the breakout lessons, often come from somewhere other than the land you know. It’s a rule of thumb that can frequently run counter to our habits as leaders....

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Larry Robertson

Your Recipe for Success Needs a Dash of Humility

Stop Mandating Culture and Start ‘Chatting Like No One Is Listening’

For Leaders, The Central Problem of 2021 was a Lack of Centering

How Valuable Is Your MVP? The Answer Isn’t Invaluable

Do You Want Your Business Strategy to Succeed? Change the Word ‘Business’ to ‘Human’

The Surprisingly Powerful Force that Keeps Leaders Successful and Relevant

What It Means to Succeed: The ‘Never Done’ Truth About Leading Yourself and Your Team to Victory

Crazy as it Sounds, 3 Simple Moves are Your Key to Navigating an Uncertain Landscape

Once Treated as a Nice-to-have, Soft Skill, Wise Leaders Know Emotional Intelligence Is Central to Business Strategy and Success

The Efficiency Fallacy, and the Importance of Resilience

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