Terry Starbucker

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Why Great Leadership Means Leading Your Way Out Of A Job

Terry Starbucker

Back in 2009 when I was SVP of Operations with Bresnan Communications, I was in Butte, Montana for a morning staff meeting with the front office staff and field technicians. This is the story of one of those days.

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If We Know HOW To Be Happy, How Come We Still Can?t BE Happy?

Terry Starbucker

Back in 2009 I read a piece in the New York Times by David Brooks about Vaillant and the study , in response to a longer piece published in the Atlantic about the same time entitled “ What Makes Us Happy ” written by Joshua Wolf . Well, not exactly. It doesn’t always work that way.

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The Best Motivational Tool We Love to Hate

Terry Starbucker

That was 2009. All we have to do to show how valuable deadlines are is to put ourselves in situations where they don’t exist. For example, take yours truly. After a few years of writing this blog I decided that I wanted to write a book. That “decision” was one without a deadline. That is, until I had a deadline.

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The 10 Core Elements Of The Rally The Troops Leadership Speech

Terry Starbucker

Here I am back in 2009, giving that speech. It was a disaster, and to make matters worse, all of the local TV stations covered it, so I could watch myself admonishing the crowd to “ be quiet! when I got home later that evening (that was the ONE line they chose to air!). Thank you very much.”.

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The Must-Dos: My 10 Most Enduring Leadership Lessons

Terry Starbucker

They are truly “oldies but goodies” It was interesting for me, as I was preparing this post, to reflect on the time and context in which I had originally presented the lessons – during a period (2007-2009) where I was deeply engaged in my greatest leadership role and challenge, and at an equally challenging economic time – (..)

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The 3 Secrets To Fantastic Work

Terry Starbucker

(Note: While I’m at SOBCon NW this weekend, I wanted to repeat one of my favorite past posts (from June of 2009), that is also featured in my free e-book “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full “ ).

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10 Critical Leadership Battles (And How You Can Win Them All)

Terry Starbucker

Note: To my long-time readers, you’ve seen the core of this post before - the 10 battles originally appeared here in 2009, without context. Which side are you on ? Let’s be leaders. Will you follow me? Now you know the the rest of the story…).