Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them by Starbucker on November 1, 2009 In our quest to become great leaders we take on a constant stream of internal battles. That school is now closed.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

Sue Decker, Yahoo’s former president, describes how the deal came about and what Yahoo learned from doing business in China. At the time, though, we were just in search of a new approach to building a sustainable business in that critical but often difficult market. Things hadn’t gone well up until that point.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

When Amazon announced last week that it will acquire Whole Foods Market, a grocery chain with over 450 retail stores and deep industry talent, for $13.7 on the news, increasing its market capitalization by $11 billion. Back in 2005, Amazon Prime was conceived, developed, and launched in about two months.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 29, 2010

Plus, his communication skills were sub-par, and at about the company’s lowest point, he delivered a speech at a major trade show that was considered a rambling, unfocused, “ unmitigated disaster “ Something had to change. Thirteen years later, the stock price is now above $240, and it has a market cap bigger than Microsoft.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 19, 2011

In an environment where "average is over," they go on, everybody has to find their "extra" — their unique talent, skill, contribution, or commitment that separates them from the pack and lets them do something special. The business world is overflowing with products and services and designs and marketing campaigns that are adequate.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2013

I first wrote about these contemptible "information" graphics in HBR in 2005, and since then they've only seemed to multiply. The friendly-looking sunburst that follows, captured from the website of a solar energy advocacy group, shows how to create an unlimited market for your product. I aim to change that. Swimming in Data?

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. This is an important point for all business leaders, but in my experience, I believe marketers are particularly prone to what I call “smart syndrome.”

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 25, 2011

EIS provided critical information on how to contact search-and-rescue teams, where to receive food and water, and how to register missing loved ones. Yet rape has only been outlawed in Haiti since 2005 and hundreds of thousands are still housed post-quake in insecure tent cities. Take Cisco.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

".most often the very skills that propel an organization to succeed in sustaining circumstances systematically bungle the best ideas for disruptive growth. In November 2005, Paul Graham wrote an essay titled " The Venture Capital Squeeze." Hedge fund investors who deploy capital in large and liquid markets can scale their time well.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 18, 2010

But truth be told, all there is a very real difference between managers and leaders, very few leaders have the luxury of a management-free existence, and very few managers will succeed without leadership skills. The challenge is that both require very different skill sets. Thanks again, and all the best! All the best!

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

I can really identify with your story…I’ve been laid off a few times in five years in the marketing area. They allowed me to free-lance, gain more confidence in my strengths and skills, and now to have a career that I thoroughly love. How we look at the glass is a choice we make everyday…and life is good.

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Deming Institute

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

How to build succesful business right the first time. I realized I was quite good at telling them how to create an organized business and motivating them to make it real, so I decided I wanted to actually use these skills to build a real business for myself. In 2014, I applied for and received a grant from The W.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

These gaps created another problem for them: In the critical stages following the spill, BP was unable to get input from those who had the knowledge and experience to make the best decisions about how to handle it. Execution Gap Maker #2: Nokia Nokia’s share of the worldwide market for mobile phones continued to slip in 2010.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

Among those leading the way are Rosabeth Moss Kanter and colleagues at Harvard, who in 2005 sounded the call for a “third-stage of education.” ALI targets successful and experienced leaders eager to use their accumulated know-how to address large social problems in a systemic way.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The world’s five largest companies (by market capitalization) are all American and compete in the digital sphere: Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. The rise of the so-called “gig economy” has reshaped how we think about business models and jobs, exemplified by the likes of Uber and TaskRabbit.

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