Terry Starbucker

JULY 4, 2010

Leading a group of people is a lot like conducting a grand experiment, where the “scientist&# ( the leader ) fills a laboratory ( the business ) with test subjects ( the team ), and then sets up parameters, calibrates goals, and eventually makes a hypothesis on each one of them. Then, every day, those hypothesis get tested.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Mid-Year Leadership Check-Up: 10 Ways To Stay On The Path To Success by Starbucker on June 6, 2010 With summer approaching it’s time for a mid-year leadership “Check-Up&#.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

So how can we maximize peer-to-peer and department-to-department relations, and thus maximize our company’s chances for success? Align your ultimate goals and objectives. Work tirelessly with your peers to make the hand-offs seamless – it will pay off. Then Repeat again. Use Proper Pronouns (i.e.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. Do you need to reshuffle a few things now before things get too busy?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 31, 2010

Lastly, I like to hire people that set high goals and standards, and are the first ones to tell you they aren’t hitting them. But I’ll be successful enough to easily survive the failures – and stay on the road to greatness. In other words, they are harder on themselves than I ever could be. I call them “self-regulators”.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. I thought, “ how in the world could I possibly summarize all that we did to be successful in 30 seconds ?&# What’s the overarching goal?

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I call it “checking all the boxes&# – moving the machine hour by hour, day by day, and year by year, towards its ultimate goal. Thanks again to you both, and all the best. Today is Wednesday, December 08th, 2010 "Dealing with the literal world in a favorable way."

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Goals are set for these metrics, and rewards are given for hitting and/or exceeding them.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Every chance I got, I framed our tangible goals and objectives with them, making sure that they were the foundation of every forward step we took. You must have a crew that has “bought-in&# to the goals and objectives of the boat, and are willing to take your lead. You are in charge of the navigation and steering.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 17, 2010

Just think about it for a second – go back to your successes in life. You may start off with something small, but eventually your success will encourage you to try something a bit further outside your comfort zone, and before you know it you’re looking back at your accomplishments and thinking, “Wow, I did that?!?!

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 4, 2010

Saying more with less is the goal here. It’s not a comfortable situation, by any means, but it is a great test of our ability to keep our teammates focused on their day to day work, and not the delayed action. Del, I agree with your “too much&# point. Thanks again to all of you, and all the best!

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

It’s that power of the imagination, and while it can create a magical (and admittedly sometimes scary) candy factory, it can also create a similarly wondrous “idea factory&# that can drive leadership success, and long-term profitability.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2009

Meredith Bell December 28, 2009 at 9:14 am Outstanding reminder to every business person that a major goal of our business is to create a positive memorable experience for every customer. I can think of several that I’ve witnessed that, after succession, didn’t last too much longer. Great story. How powerful is THAT?!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

While it doesn’t guarantee success, the “C&# word does – quite definitively – guarantee failure. Perhaps we say “can’t&# , not because we feel we legitimately can’t do it, but we’re scared that we won’t actually achieve our goals, and we’ll fail. Ironshef May 20, 2010 at 7:16 am I’m in!

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2010

It’s funny – most “karma creators&# I know often chalk up their resulting successes to luck – but these folks are out there creating their own luck, by their kind, generous, noble, courteous, respectful, and thoughtful actions. However, without fail, Karma rewards me eventually and rewards others appropriately!

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