Terry Starbucker

JULY 3, 2011

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are what I consider to be the “Golden 10″ pieces of feedback that we really need to be getting to ratify our effectiveness (and our approach to greatness). Let’s count ‘em down, from the bottom to the top: 10. “I don’t know, but I’ll find out&# - When they trust that you won’t jump down their throats for not knowing an answer. 9. “I made a mistake&# &#

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 31, 2011

“We’re in the dark here&#. “Nobody knows what’s going on&#. These are classic signs of a leadership technique I call “ Leadership by Osmosis “ That is, the expectation that a leader’s knowledge can simply be transferred to others without the benefit of much verbal and written communication – kind of like Mr.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 24, 2011

In today’s ultra-competitive businesses, one of the most challenging things for middle and upper level leaders is to get leadership lessons across quickly and effectively to front line supervisors, especially while they are in the thick of their hectic day to day activities. Sometimes it’s hard to get their full attention for 10 minutes, much less the time it would take to do a full-scale training session.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 13, 2011

And now…… Google+ !!!!! Another Social Media platform. I’m now on it (as Terry Starbucker), and learning to use it, like all the other beta test subjects. It’s pretty cool, and is showing early signs of being a formidable competitor with Facebook. But this post isn’t really about Google+ – I’ll leave the technical stuff to people who really know what they’re talking about, like this excellent piece by Chris Brogan.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2011

It’s the moment of truth. That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. It’s when a teammate engages with a customer. All that vision, all that inspiration, all that process, all that teaching, all that alignment, all that mission statement – all that everything – comes into play right then and there.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 27, 2011

I was frustrated. I was six months into my first blogging experience, and I was already at a pivot point. I was making all kinds of new connections, but something was missing. There was something that wasn’t happening, and I needed it to happen to really make the experience meaningful. This frustration almost stopped me in my tracks – I was ready to just retire the Blogger account and move on to something else.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 6, 2011

The basics. The fundamentals. The dirty work. Making the sausage. Doing the job. Answering the phone. Delivering on time. Generating the invoices. Paying the bills. Making payroll. Collecting receivables. Fixing what’s broke. Not fixing what isn’t broke. Blocking and Tackling. A football phrase that makes me think of Vince Lombardi. I was born in Wisconsin, and my first real sports memories were of the Green Bay Packers, and their championship years in the 60s with Lombardi as the he

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