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.

Tech and Innovation

Uncertain Times Call No for Adjustments, But for Bold Shifts. Here’s Where to Begin

Tech and InnovationLarry Robertson

Two things are undeniably true. The first is that regardless of which part of the planet you occupy or what sector you work in, the world today is turbulent. Just pre-pandemic, a survey of 1,500 senior leaders found 84% describing their current operating world as "increasingly disruptive." Immediately prior to...

CEO Agenda

Agree to Disagree: The Powerful Leadership Asset of Differing Views

CEO AgendaLarry Robertson

Our images of the perfect leader, team, or organization are flawed, most notably when it comes to disagreement. Almost universally, we regard disagreement as bad, something to be avoided, severely limited, or at the extremes, punished. An affinity for order drives this view. Predictable processes, roles, and interactions, we are...

Lifestyle and Travel

Hard as It Can Be to See, Advancing in Uncertain Times, Requires a Certain Amount of Blindness

Lifestyle and TravelLarry Robertson

Planning, tactics, clear roles, and all other forms of order and discipline—to one degree or another, as leaders and as followers, in organizations small and large, frankly as humans we pine for these things. They promise predictability (even when they fail to deliver). But here's the problem: The world today...

Success and Leadership

The Key to Success In Uncertain Times, May Be the Exact Opposite of What You Think

Success and LeadershipLarry Robertson

Norman Maclean wasn’t a business writer. He didn’t consciously write about leadership either. In fact, fewer than should don’t even know who Maclean was—even if they know that a young Brad Pitt starred in a movie based on Maclean’s most popular novella, A River Runs Through It. But that doesn’t...

CEO Spotlight

How Do You Thrive In Uncertain Times? Start By Sharing The Lead

CEO SpotlightLarry Robertson

Here’s a thought that goes against the default thinking of most leaders: Increasingly, it’s more important not to lead than to lead. Strange as it may at first sound, in a highly uncertain world it’s an important thought to understand and embrace—that is if your goals include adaptability, innovation, and...

CEO Agenda

To Make Growth Mindset Work, You’ve Got To Get To Its Roots

CEO AgendaLarry Robertson

A great deal has been written about growth mindset and how it applies to leadership. The theory, originated by Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, argues that each and every one of us has the capacity to view the world as either limited or unlimited, closed or open or, in Dweck’s...

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Larry Robertson

Uncertain Times Call No for Adjustments, But for Bold Shifts. Here’s Where to Begin

Agree to Disagree: The Powerful Leadership Asset of Differing Views

Hard as It Can Be to See, Advancing in Uncertain Times, Requires a Certain Amount of Blindness

The Key to Success In Uncertain Times, May Be the Exact Opposite of What You Think

How Do You Thrive In Uncertain Times? Start By Sharing The Lead

To Make Growth Mindset Work, You’ve Got To Get To Its Roots

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