Terry Starbucker

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How a Good Life Builds a (Better Than) Great Company – The Zen of Jonathan Fields

Terry Starbucker

His last best-selling book, “ Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt Into Fuel For Brilliance” was named the top personal development book in 2011 by 800-CEO-READ. He is one of those unique people on the planet that can be dynamic, thoughtful, challenging, zen, and mind-blowing all in one short conversation.

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How Passion Can Revolutionize Digital Technology, AND Change The.

Terry Starbucker

Its CEO at the time was great at cutting costs and preserving capital, but investors weren’t buying it. And change it did, because the new CEO had a vision that went beyond product, and costs, and overhead, and costs of capital. And that CEO is Steve Jobs. It was about passion. And about people who have it.

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Leadership Schizophrenia: The Fine Line Between Hubris and Humility

Terry Starbucker

We hear CEOs being analysed as leaders of one type or other. Is it our British way to over analyse things to understand inorder to predict the outcome of future or American way to brand CEOs with a style so they don’t act out of the grove. Human instincts grows and matures.

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Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough

Terry Starbucker

I saw one of them last week at the World Business Forum (#wbf10 on Twitter) in New York – former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. He had quite the command of the audience, answering questions with searing honesty and with a flair only possessed by the charismatic. Who are these people? The charismatic leaders.

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6 Building Blocks To A Fortress of Credibility In The Workplace

Terry Starbucker

Seats are filling fast - dont delay [link] about 42 minutes ago from TweetDeck @tom_peters No, absolutely not. :-) about 1 hour ago from TweetDeck in reply to tom_peters @debworks Indeed he was.

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3 For Your Leadership Reading List: The Half-Full Book Review

Terry Starbucker

. “ 7 Lessons For Leading In Crisis “ – Bill George I recently had the good fortune of seeing Bill George speak at the World Economic Forum in NYC; he’s an ex-big company CEO who spoke about leading in crisis, and turning crisis into opportunities. Here is the list: 1).

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Leadership Hiding In Plain Sight: The Return of Common Sense (WBF.

Terry Starbucker

The best illustration I can offer came from one of the speakers, the CEO of Kraft Foods, Irene Rosenfeld. The 2nd Day speakers, particularly in the afternoon sessions, made it clear to me that a lot of effective leadership practice is hiding in plain sight. That is, sometimes we go too deep in searching for answers.