Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well. Once that boulder gets “over the hump”, gravity takes effect and an incredible momentum carries us forward, which makes success come all the easier – and makes al

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. He also has previous leadership experience at other prominent companies.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 23, 2011

As Halloween approaches, I’ve been thinking about monsters lately. Leadership monsters. Not the evil ones, but the kind that have a gigantic positive impact on their workplaces – more like “ scary good “ In fact, there is a particular kind of leadership monster that is really scary good – one with three heads. It needs three heads because each one represents three distinctly different tasks and roles that are essential in having a “monster-like” impac

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 30, 2011

Front Line Leadership . Guest Post By Adam Tenenbaum. In my last post I introduced Part 1 of my two-part series on the the topic of Managing Millennials (the generation born roughly between 1980 and the mid 90‘s) – Treat Them Like a Celebrity. Today in Part 2, I’m presenting the other key tactic – Create The Progress Bar Effect. As I noted on my last post , each generation is a result of the dominant events, personalities and technologies that were popularized during their maturation

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Imagine the quest for leadership success as an episode of Wheel of Fortune – there’s a puzzle put in front of you, with just a couple of clues on how to solve it. You work your way though a lot of it on your own, but then you get stuck. You can’t do it by yourself any longer – you have to get some help. “Pat, I’d like to buy a vowel – let’s try “E” Vanna turns around 4 of them, and Pat declares “ that letter is important –

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