As competition intensifies in the AI era, Robbins believes collaboration—not individual heroics—is what separates standout employees in particular from everyone else.
“Anybody that says they don’t care about their own success is lying to you. But [you need to] figure out that when the team succeeds, I’m going to succeed, so it’s easy for me to focus on the team.”
He pointed to Cisco’s track record during the 1990s, when the company helped create an estimated 10,000 employee millionaires, as proof that shared success can be a powerful motivator.
Robbins isn’t alone in viewing human skills as increasingly important.
