Sat.Jul 16, 2011 - Fri.Jul 22, 2011

Terry Starbucker

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How To Make Two Key Contradictions of Leadership Work For You

Terry Starbucker

It’s the moment of truth. That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. It’s when a teammate engages with a customer. All that vision, all that inspiration, all that process, all that teaching, all that alignment, all that mission statement – all that everything – comes into play right then and there.

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The Asterisk on The Secret of Life (The Perils Of Being A Mile Wide And An Inch Deep)

Terry Starbucker

A few years back I wrote that the “Real Secret of Life&# was never growing up. What I’ve learned since then is that there should be an asterisk after that, with the following warning: “CAUTION, your rediscovered child-like wonder may take you to too many places at once&#. Indeed it can. Because it recently happened to me. I’ve always known about the old problem of “being a mile wide and an inch deep&# – that is, spreading yourself so thin trying to cover multi