I’ve been asking questions for a long time. Here are a few of my favorites: What can I do to help you? Where did you grow up? What is your your special gift? Yankees or Tigers? If you said Yankees, forget about it Who do you turn to for help? Do you like ketchup on your hotdogs? If so, forget about it. When it comes to music, do you like the oldies only? Or do you like to listen to …
Today, I present you the key leadership lessons from Cynthia Wilbanks, Vice President for Government Relations at University of Michigan and the new Chairman of the Board at Spark. Cynthia presented these lessons last month at my Leaders Connect Breakfast event. Building bridges is an important a feature of finding success. Once you’ve you gone to the trouble of building bridges, don’t burn them down. Remember that ‘the only people who like or enjoy change are babies with wet diapers” …
The faster things change, the faster things change.” Rob Pasick (*as his head spins). I just went through a major redesign of my website RobPasick.com. When Inner Circle Media designed my first website in 1999, I thought it was a great and was excited about the potential to share my thoughts and my business with a wider audience. Sixteen years later, I still think it was a good website. But now that Dunrie Greiling has done a complete redesign, I …
We are blessed in this community to have many fine, experienced leaders. One of the first and foremost among these leaders is Cynthia Willbanks, Vice President for Government Affairs at the University of Michigan. Cynthia will be the guest speaker this week at my Leaders Connect breakfast event. When we celebrate leaders, we tend to focus on entrepreneurs. Too often we forget about the importance of community and public service. We only need to look at Cynthia’s resume to understand …
Today I am so proud to feature remarks from Dr. Ari Weinzweig and Dr. Paul Saginaw, upon receiving honorary doctorates from the University of Michigan, their alma mater. “Don’t read what people write about you on social media,” Paul Saginaw said. I saw Paul at Zingerman’s Coffee last week, just days before he was scheduled to address fifty-thousand people at UM’s graduation. I asked if he was nervous. “When it was announced that [Ari and I] were the commencement speakers, …
Dear Dr. Rob: Last week you wrote about identifying your gift. I have a few talents, but I don’t know what my gift is. Please give me some guidance on how to discover my gift. Dear Reader: One of my core beliefs is that everyone is gifted in some special way. Yet, like you, many of my clients and friends find it difficult to recognize and articulate their unique gift. Here is a process I recommend to my clients. Usually …