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Robert Glazer is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker known for his work on leadership and organizational culture. He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners and the creator of the popular Friday Forward newsletter, which reaches readers in over 60 countries.
Known for: Friday Night Lights, The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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Friday Night Lights
Friday Forward is a collection of short, powerful stories originally shared in Robert Glazer’s weekly newsletter to inspire readers to improve their lives and leadership. Each story encourages reflect...

The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
The Mosquito Bowl recounts the true story of a group of U.S. Marines—many of them former college football stars—who played a makeshift football game on Guadalcanal in 1944 before being sent into one o...
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Section 1 – Capacity: Building a Foundation for Sustainable Growth
When I speak about capacity, I’m not talking about how many hours you can work or how much responsibility you can pile onto your plate. True capacity is about how much *potential* you can expand and sustain without burning out or losing integrity. I’ve come to see life as a continual process of capa...
From Friday Night Lights
Section 2 – Leadership and Accountability
Leadership, I’ve often said, is not a title but a practice of accountability and service. When I first began leading teams, I mistakenly thought that accountability meant setting expectations and holding people to them. Over the years, I discovered that it starts much closer to home: accountability ...
From Friday Night Lights
Young Warriors: From the Gridiron to the Pacific
Every great war story begins before the war itself, and for the men of the Mosquito Bowl, that story began on college fields scattered across America. There was Charlie McClure, a lineman from Wisconsin whose steady strength anchored the Badgers in the late 1930s. There was John McLaughry, who playe...
From The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
The Mosquito Bowl: A Game Amid the Ruins
Life on Guadalcanal was a strange interlude between horror and anticipation. The men were waiting—waiting for orders, waiting for movement, waiting for whatever came next. They called their encampment the Mosquito Bowl because of the relentless insects, the oppressive humidity, and the absurd sense ...
From The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
About Buzz Bissinger
Robert Glazer is an entrepreneur, author, and speaker known for his work on leadership and organizational culture. He is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners and the creator of the popular Friday Forward newsletter, which reaches readers in over 60 countries.
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