Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 7, 2011

For many leaders out there (myself included), sometimes there just aren’t enough hours in a day. Work piles up, deadlines loom, milestones are passing, folks are tugging at you from all different directions- and guess what suffers. Our leadership. Unless we give ourselves enough time to climb back up to 10,000 feet from ground level, all those things we’ve learned about great leadership can get pushed into the recesses of our conscious mind, and thus, we become very task orientated,

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 17, 2011

My first real “boss&# was a cantankerous 75-year old man who happened to be worth many hundreds of millions of dollars, all earned from a starting base of zero. In other words, they guy knew how to make a business successful. And yet, of all the lessons he gave me, it was a simple little story he used to tell me about every month or so that has left the biggest mark on me.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 10, 2011

Somewhere, in a galaxy far, far away, I had a rare chance to chat with Yoda, who, it can now be revealed, has been one of my favorite Social Media mentors. It’s a little known fact that in addition to his important duties as a Jedi Master, Yoda has been behind the scenes training many of us in the ways of Social Media. It’s a treat to be able to share with you just a little of his wisdom here.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 31, 2011

I was 27 when I got a call from an executive search company about a job in Los Angeles. “Would you be interested in the chief operating job for a cable company with 400,000 customers?&#. Huh? I was an Audit Manager at a public accounting firm. I managed several jobs, and oversaw 5-10 staff accountants, but that was the extent of my leadership experience.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 21, 2011

Before you start reading this post, I’d like you to listen to one of your favorite uplifting songs, one that, in your estimation, was a great marriage of lyric, melody, tone, and rhythm. (Go ahead, I’ll wait… ). Let’s think about what you just heard for a second or two – how did it make you feel uplifted? Were you, like I do so often, mouthing or singing the words out loud, especially the chorus?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 3, 2011

One can make a LOT of speeches over a long leadership career. The thing about making a speech that has always fascinated me is that of all its many elements, the one thing that almost always makes it or breaks it is the very last thing you say. The very last thing. Think about that one – think about all of your speeches as a leader. A good speech needs a punctuation mark, something that “brackets&# what was said before, or reinforces it, or summarizes it, or contextualizes it –

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 24, 2011

We all remember those times when our parents made us eat something on our plates that just didn’t appeal to us. “ Go on, eat your peas, they’re good for you !&# we’d hear from Mom. Eventually, so we could finally leave the table, we’d take a deep breath, and eat them. Yuck! But at least we were doing something “good for us&# , right?

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