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Robert Towle
Don't limit yourself! How can entrepreneurs stop self-sabotage?
Meet Robert Towle. As an entrepreneur & author of a book “Don’t Be Dumb”, he debunks little-known limiting beliefs today’s entrepreneurs face on their journey to success.
Highlights
- CEO & Founder of 636 Advisors
- Author of Don't Be Dumb, a leadership “playbook” for entrepreneurs striving to build something meaningful.
- Worked with world-renowned brands like Panasonic, Hewlett-Packard and SAS
- Over 20 years of business experience and winning multi-million dollar deals
Who is Robert?
Robert Towle is the CEO and Founder of 636 Advisors and the author of a new book Don’t Be Dumb.
Robert grew up living around the world. Although the majority of his career has been in Finance and Consulting, he has been consulting since 2013. His work has taken him to Singapore, India, Colombia, Brazil, Hong Kong, Macau, Sri Lanka, Italy, France, the UK, and Poland, as well as to 48 of the 50 United States.
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He has over 20 years of experience and has managed multiple shared services transformation projects and has held multiple roles managing shared services operations in the U.S., U.K. and in multiple locations in India. Prior to consulting, he was most recently the Vice President of Finance for Pinkerton Consulting.
After his surgery to remove a brain tumor in 2018, he discovered his passion of helping young entrepreneurs through sharing his work experiences. Recently, he has turned these adventures and observations into Don’t Be Dumb, a unique “playbook” for entrepreneurs striving to build something meaningful.
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Robert's book
Don't Be Dumb
A Leadership Playbook To Help You Be Smarter, Overcome Obstacles, And Rise Rapidly In Challenging Times.
The collection of unique life stories is aimed to be used as a playbook for both the entrepreneur and other professionals. The stories and lessons serve both as a warning and lesson to be applied in driving business to the next level.
Through Robert’s distinctive leadership and experience, Don’t Be Dumb offers practical insights to identify and overcome challenging obstacles, recover and rise quickly from mistakes, and live with integrity and trust in your own decisions, no matter what the consequences.
Release date: October 2021
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What Your Audience Could Learn
How entrepreneurs can win faster by focusing on the present, not the past
Many young or even experienced entrepreneurs dwell on their mistakes which keeps them from moving forward. Growing up in a military family, Robert had no choice but to always enjoy the present moment and look to the future as they were moving almost every year. While building his businesses, he embodied this approach again.Many young or even experienced entrepreneurs dwell on their mistakes which keeps them from moving forward. Growing up in a military family, Robert had no choice but to always enjoy the present moment and look to the future as they were moving almost every year. While building his businesses, he embodied this approach again.
On your podcast, he can share stories and actionable strategies that will help entrepreneurs stop thinking about their past and finally move forward.
Define your Recovery Strategy to overcome business mistakes quickly
Entrepreneurs often pursue perfection. Yet, trying to achieve perfection often keeps business owners from making an impact. According to Robert, having a recovery strategy when you make an imperfect decision is more important than striving to make perfect decisions all the time.Entrepreneurs often pursue perfection. Yet, trying to achieve perfection often keeps business owners from making an impact. According to Robert, having a recovery strategy when you make an imperfect decision is more important than striving to make perfect decisions all the time.
On your podcast, he can share stories of saving multi-million dollar deals in just a couple of seconds ONLY because he was prepared and had a recovery strategy in place.
Getting What You Need: Field-tested negotiation secrets for young entrepreneurs
Businesses are lost because entrepreneurs fail to negotiate to get what they need. Especially younger entrepreneurs come to negotiations unprepared and leave empty-handed.Businesses are lost because entrepreneurs fail to negotiate to get what they need. Especially younger entrepreneurs come to negotiations unprepared and leave empty-handed.
During this actionable topic, Robert can share the step-by-step strategy that helped him and his business partners to create win-win situations in business and life. He’s described stories in his new book Don’t Be Dumb that he’s happy to share with you before the interview.
Eliminate “STUPID” tasks
The acronym STUPID stands for Slow, Time-Consuming, Unproductive, Inefficient, and Duplicative. In every business, many STUPID activities get performed for no apparent reason.The acronym STUPID stands for Slow, Time-Consuming, Unproductive, Inefficient, and Duplicative. In every business, many STUPID activities get performed for no apparent reason.
On your podcast, Robert can share how to spot such activities and proven exercises to eliminate them to increase productivity, job satisfaction, and results within teams.
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