Mike Robbins is the author of five books, including his latest, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER: Creating a Team Culture of High Performance, Trust, and Belonging. He’s a sought-after speaker and consultant whose clients include Google, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, Gap, eBay, the NBA, the Oakland A’s, and many others.
Entrepreneurial Role Models:
When business started difficulties overcame:
“it was not an overnight thing but I started my business in 2001 and my plan was… I gave myself a year and I said I am going to spend this year 2001 designing my own curriculum meaning I am going to read every book I can, I’m going to take as many workshops and classes, I’m going to meet people, I’m going to take people out to coffee and tea and pick their brain if they will let me and try to learn as much as I can about this business about how do people actually make money trying to help and inspire other people. And at the end of the year I might be broke and I might be in debt but if I had gone back to school I would be broke and in debt… That first year and second year was pretty lean but I was young, my expenses personally were not that big… I am really grateful that that I started when I did and as young as I was even though I was super naïve and there was a ton of stuff I didn’t know”…[Listen for More]
Favourite Books:
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff: Simple Ways to Keep the Little Things from Taking Over Your Life Book by Richard CarlsonFavourite Quote:
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde
Recommended Online Resources:
- Harvard Business Review – Find new ideas and classic advice on strategy, innovation and leadership, for global leaders from the world’s best business and management experts
- LinkedIn – LinkedIn is a business and employment-oriented service that operates via websites and mobile apps. Founded on December 28, 2002, and launched on May 5, 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking, including employers posting jobs and job seekers posting their CVs.
Best Advice to Other Entrepreneurs:
“trust yourself. There is a reason why you decided to do what you do. And whether you are just starting out or you have been doing it for a long time there is that why that you have. Simon Sinek says start with why. Why did you do it? And then trust yourself and simultaneously have people around you whether they are on your team or in your circle of influence who you trust, who you can go to and really be real to get support and to get guidance when you need it”…[Listen for More]
More About Mike Robbins:
Neil’s Quote at the Beginning:
“Do what you can with all you have, wherever you are.” Theodore Roosevelt
Other Quotes From the Chat with Mike Robbins:
- “I am willing to take a risk personally, put myself out there, speak up, get up in front of people and speak even in the days when I didn’t really have much skill doing that”
- “the idea of starting something and creating something just was like a foreign concept to me”
- “creating something of your own can be riskier and scarier but often more fulfilling and exciting because then you get to call the shots and create it”
- “there is people who get a paycheck and there is people who go create it. Those are two different worlds and you have to decide which world you want to live in”
- “there are things that we can’t control sometimes with the outcome but we can always control our attitude and our effort and how we show up”
- “don’t waste a good crisis. Take that growth mindset. And if we miss the lesson even in the failure then it’s really a failure but if we learn from the failure it’s not a failure is just an opportunity for growth”
- “we have got to make decisions and then live with the decisions that we make”
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