Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Path To Business Greatness: 5 Steps To Bridging The Divide Between Owners & Employees by Starbucker on May 16, 2010 It’s the biggest divide any company has – the one between its owners and employees.

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JANUARY 3, 2010

The Right Team on the Field – I think that many companies put off adjusting their teams towards the end of 2009. Yeah, we’re a survey company and so this is technically shameless self-promotion, but believe me when I say we find surveys to be very useful for our own planning. The two that resonate with me are #4 and #7.

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APRIL 18, 2010

I see good IT people promoted as IT managers because of their good results in IT, and then others wonder why they are bad managers. The personality of a good manager can be very different from the skills of a good IT person. Andy Hayes April 19, 2010 at 3:08 pm Reminds me of something a mentor told me one time. Make sense?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Cheers, Sheldon, community manager for Sysomos Mike Myatt September 15, 2010 at 5:52 pm Hi Terry: This is a wonderful look at how social media truly benefits leaders. GuruGal | writer & editor September 26, 2010 at 11:25 am Do you coach employees/managers on leveraging social media, too? Great post!

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NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Jeanne, “have fun and get it done&# is about the best mantra any company could have. Mack McCoy December 4, 2009 at 11:42 am What a wonderful example of what true leadership / management looks like and WHY it is so successful. Our company has always had a strong family feel (the owners are brother and sister).

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JANUARY 28, 2010

. “ 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. “SWAT – Seize The Accomplishment&# – Timothy L.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2010

I learned a couple of very valuable lessons – autocratic/fear management wasn’t going to work over the long-term, and I should never pretend to be something that I’m not. Which by the way – that is the reason of the existence of our company. Meier February 15, 2010 at 1:52 am Beautiful reflection and insight.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

When the tech bubble burst around that time I refused to believe I had erred by taking so many positions in risky dot-com companies. The biggest mistake I’ve made in my career, for example, was to decide to make a cross-country move to work for someone I was just not compatible with from a leader/manager standpoint.

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APRIL 4, 2010

And as a result, it puts a big hit on company productivity, because you are not the only one who is experiencing this. As managers we expect our coders to make progress every day on the tasks they are working on, and expect the updates to reflect such. It’s hard to focus on anything else. Yep, it’s the Tarmac Syndrome.

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

They are tactics that fit into a strategy, which fits into a bigger picture of the goals we’re trying to achieve as a company. It can, if not managed properly, make the user terribly unproductive (don’t I know it) Very True so beware! I think these are all great, but they are not the strategy.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

I know, you must be saying to yourself – isn’t that just absolutely, positively obvious – they are a food company! But apparently it wasn’t to the previous management – Rosenfeld discovered that way too many customers really didn’t like their products. The food needs to taste good.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

It’s not all in the employee handbook and instruction manuals – everybody, and especially customer facing teammates, must be able to make those daily practical judgments that make a huge difference between greatness and mediocrity These qualities are great, but they need to be amplified by a supervisor or manager. Great work.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2009

We recently hired an outside firm at my company to take a look at some of our operations, and sure enough, they looked at some rocks we hadn’t looked under for several years – and found some things that we could change to make us better.

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MARCH 28, 2010

Looking back at your situation and knowing now that the S&L company went under, do you wish you would have somehow responded to the “higer-ups&# in your firm when you saw the “final&# reserve? Or, is it something that was completely out of your control? I soon discovered on my internship that this is not necessarily the case.

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MAY 20, 2010

Uh oh, wrong choice of words. Young man”, he said, “I will not tolerate any nattering nabobs of negativity in this enterprise – do you understand?” 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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