Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 24, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media by Starbucker on January 24, 2010 It’s the new elephant in the room. Social Media has its own language protocol, and “company-speak” isn’t one of them.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 26, 2011

That’s what will make the difference between a company that might get by and one that is good or even great. Yes, a rifle or laser-sharp approach will take more planning and forethought, but in the end you’ll probably save time and resources. A laser-sharp strategy is much more practical, productive, and economical.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Therefore the art you speak of sculpts with a very sharp blade – the tongue. Copyright/Legal Privacy Resources Sitemap N2Growth Blog © Copyright 2010 N2Growth. Unfortunately, the wildcard is PEOPLE. We serve people, lead people, we relate to people, we encourage or discourage people, and we are people. Our Freedom.

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N2Growth Blog

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Thanks for a wonderful 2010. The generation we call the 'silent' generation and the early Boomer cohort exemplified the 'sold my soul to the company store' gospel. Now both my sons are doing the tough balancing act, but their priorities are keeping their leadership skills sharp – leading family and companies.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2017

In boom times, companies may face adjustment costs that deter them from adapting to technological change. However, studies dating back to Joseph Schumpeter’s coinage of the term “ creative destruction ” suggest that adjustments to technological change may be more episodic. We distinguish routine-cognitive occupations (e.g.,

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle by Starbucker on April 18, 2010 In 1987, during my first few months as a fledgling executive, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J.

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Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Many major companies, such as Southwest Airlines, UPS, Chick-fil-A, Best Buy, Yum! The Bad: The Local Coffee Shop In tough economic times, small business owners should have a laser-sharp focus on great customer service, doing everything they can to ensure their customers feel respected and loved. Always respond quickly.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2012

Whether President Obama's health reform law lives or dies after next week's Supreme Court decision, it won't alter the dire fact that employee health costs have exploded to become the third-largest expense in business today, undermining the financial health of thousands of companies. About 22 percent of firms in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

The answer is the sharp and unexpected rise of existential risk. For example, in Japan, the utility company believed its nuclear problem was water — not enough water to cool the reactors and ponds. Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

Understanding the implementation plans for the health care law passed in 2010 is a complicated job for even the most seasoned policy wonks. These logistics took a sharp new turn last week when the Obama administration decided to delay enforcing mandatory employer and insurer employment requirements until 2015. Most large U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2014

Studying extreme consumers can help companies look at products in new ways. But not only does Lady Gaga have a great and sticky thesis, she’s endowed with a sharp mind for branding. Like all powerful brands, hers offers newness and diversity, a good lesson for all consumer companies, writes Denise Lee Yohn. And long lines ?

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 17, 2011

Half of the 14 billionaires on Forbes magazine's 2010 list of the world's richest self-made women are from mainland China. Multinational organizations expanding their presence in China and Chinese companies extending their reach into the global marketplace have a unique opportunity to help China's career women keep their ambitions on course.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

When we interviewed 45 such people across 39 companies in 8 industries in the United States and Europe, we found that by identifying low-value tasks to either drop completely, delegate to someone else or outsource, the average worker gained back roughly one day a week they could use for more important tasks.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2011

have dropped by billions — down 11% in 2010 alone, according to a recent report from the Chronicle of Philanthropy. For more tightly focused not-for-profits , such as the Cleveland Clinic and the network of Food Banks around the country, the decline is not nearly as sharp. There is a crisis in the not-for-profit sector.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At any given moment, about 5%–7% of companies either are in free fall or are about to be. And here’s a sobering fact: Only about 10%–15% of those companies will ever pull out of it. Clearly, something else, beyond the disruptive technology itself, is behind the demise of companies like Kodak.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

There was little in the way of new industries, companies, jobs, profits, or taxes. A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008.

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Rajesh Setty

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2015

A few years ago, I was struck by a study of Disney parks : the company had hired a team of analysts to figure out what kids found most absorbing about their theme park. These soaring rates of phone-usage coincide with a sharp decline in taking time off from work. Andrew Nguyen/HBR STAFF. Was it Mickey and Minnie? Space Mountain?

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. Immelt is right when he says big companies are distrusted; executives are distrusted too. distributors, retailers, and so on. Furthermore, U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The combination of increased expenditures and decreased revenues resulting from the crisis from 2008 to 2010 is likely to cost the United States government well over $2 trillion , more than twice the cost of the 17-year-long war in Afghanistan. It is hard to overstate the sheer economic cost of the 2008 financial crisis.

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