Your Values are Either Destroying Profits or Building an Empire - Robert Glazer
1/21/202659 min
In this high impact episode, Charles sits down with Robert Glazer, entrepreneur, Inc. and Forbes columnist, sought, after speaker, and founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners, to explore how leadership, culture, and values, driven growth create sustainable, high performing organizations. Robert unpacks the principles behind scaling a global performance marketing firm while staying anchored in purpose, transparency, and long-term thinking.
From building teams that thrive in a remote, first world to redefining what accountability and trust look like at scale, Robert shares how culture isn't a "nice to have", it's the operating system that drives results. He...
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First 90 secondsCharles· Host0:00
Welcome to The Proven Podcast, where we don't care what you think, only care what you can prove. On this episode, we talk to Robert Glazer, someone who has built a company that has won the award 30 times as the best place to work, from Fortune to Inc to Entrepreneur Magazine, they keep awarding it. So what's the answer? Well, it comes down to values, something I never thought. He walks us through and he even challenges my own values on this episode. It's a ride. I recommend g- hanging on tight and playing along. The show starts now. All right, everybody, welcome back to the show. Robert, I'm excited to have you on here.
Robert Glazer· Guest0:38
Charles, thanks for having me.
Charles· Host0:40
So for the four or five people on the planet who actually don't know who you are, let's explain a little bit who you are, what you do, and a little bit about your book.
Robert Glazer· Guest0:45
Uh, sure. So I've been, uh, uh, I have that disease called serial entrepreneurship. Uh, I've started a few different businesses, the largest of which is a global partnership marketing firm called Acceleration Partners that I'm chairman of. Um, however, you know, as I was building that firm, we tried to do some things differently culturally and from a leadership standpoint. We won over 30 Best Places to Work awards, and I kind of started writing a lot and talking about things that we were testing and, and, and doing, and that, that has sort of led to a second career, uh, a- a- as, as an author and speaker and a lot of focus on, on leadership and development, and I've, I've really double-clicked on this concept of, of core values both, both for organizations and, and actually, like, more