Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

That’s the critical question in sustaining a long and fruitful career, or keeping a business at the heights of profitability. So while I certainly was learning some valuable lessons in that position, I really wasn’t trying to propel my career forward. « Catch Your Career How do You Know if You’ve Contacted Adultitis?

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JANUARY 10, 2013

I thought hiring good engineers would be easy when I launched my startup, Julu Mobile , in Shanghai in early 2011. After all, China produces 600,000 engineering graduates each year, and as a former Google product manager I thought knew how to attract them.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

But that shouldn’t stand in our way of a general sense of career enjoyment, or finding some meaning in what we do. I could completely relate to this – during the part of my career when I was unhappy, I was always looking at the clock – counting the minutes to when I could go home.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 25, 2010

But here’s the funny thing about these letters – in almost all cases, it wasn’t the actual product or service the customer was raving about – it was the person delivering it. Something about this transaction made a difference for them, and because of it, we’ve made a customer for life. Or my week.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 20, 2010

While we are fulfilling our motivational desires, exerting too much authority can stifle the rest of the team’s creativity and productivity. I found that out myself very early in my career – 2 years after I graduated from college I was given a leadership position that I really wasn’t ready for.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

How do you balance those two things in successfully moving forward with your career? So I see it as a mission when I talk to clients to find their CTM, what is your special, spicy, delicious sauce that you can add to your commodity chicken product or service? Chris: I have always believed that we progress as people by 1.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Taking time for reflection is a luxury in our busy lives but a wonderful by-product of moving when we find ourselves sorting through our literal and figurative “stuff&#. The career that followed used the best of me and I was able to grow, lead and succeed in ways I could not even have imagined at the time.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Leaders who succeed at the job usually do so by combing through the company in search of noncore assets to shed, businesses to sell, activities to stop, functions to eliminate, and product lines to simplify, as Steve Jobs did when he took back the reins at Apple in 1997, and as Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, the CEO of Lego, did in 2004.

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