Terry Starbucker

JUNE 5, 2016

“It can’t be done”. “You can’t do that”. How many times have you heard these words? Plenty of times, I bet. And, how many times have you said those words? Stop and think about that for a second, and then consider this: “Can’t” is a big, fat, stop sign designed to sabotage a dream. Perhaps a better question we should ask ourselves is this – why are we hearing and saying that word in the first place?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I love leadership lessons that are backed by facts and history. Because they become what I call “ immutables ” – lessons that must be heeded to get to greatness. And there’s one immutable that has influenced me, and how I practice leadership, more than any other lesson I have ever received- and after 40 years of studying leadership, that’s saying something.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I’ve been fortunate enough over the course of my 34-year career to have arrived at what I call the leadership summit – a high place of great business success and personal satisfaction, and a fulfilling culmination of years of effort, determination, and dedication. On many occasions since that achievement I’ve been asked the “ How did you do it?

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Great leadership lessons are the ones that stand the test of time because they become a part of who you are, and how you lead, every hour of every day. In my 34 years in the business world, I’ve been fortunate to have had a chance to observe and work with great (and not so great) leaders, to read many excellent (and not so excellent) books about leadership, and gain many years of experience as a leader (and now entrepreneur, startup investor, and business consultant) myself, through both success

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 14, 2016

(Nearly) everybody in the business world has a boss. So naturally there are a lot of people out there trying to make great impressions and move up the ladder of success. But the reality it, only so many succeed. The big question is, what separates those who get the promotion versus those do don’t? Why do some make it look so easy, while others seem to never get over the hump?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2016

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are 10 pieces of feedback in particular that ratify our more human effectiveness and eventually lead to leadership greatness. They are rich with meaning as to the kind of leader you are, and are destined to become. Every time I heard one of these sentences, I knew I was on the right track, and it spurred me on to keep reaching for greatness. 1.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 28, 2016

Leadership is a great responsibility – but with that responsibility comes something that we never really hear about in all of our education, training and preparation. And it’s something that can be destructive and damaging to our performance as a leader, and to our overall health and well-being, unless it is managed and controlled. That “something” is stress and anxiety.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 20, 2016

Leadership is a balancing act. Imagine the tightrope walker at the circus, precariously navigating from one side of the big top to the other. If the walker puts too much weight on one side or the other, they’ll take a big fall. And so it is for those who lead, and what’s more, it requires a deft sense of self-awareness and guile- and just a bit of schizophrenia.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 17, 2016

The concept of execution in the business world is a multifaceted exercise, especially from the perspective of the leader. I call it “checking all the boxes” – moving the machine hour by hour, day by day, and year by year, towards its ultimate goal. Because it’s obviously important to do this, it often can overwhelm our brains and put us in a position where we operate as if our “job” is: Get Stuff Done.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 18, 2016

There is a great benefit to the 365-day calendar – the fact that it restarts at January 1, without fail. It’s an annual window of opportunity for recycling, renewal, rebirth, rejuvenation, rejiggering, retooling, rebooting, and whatever other “re-something” you can think of. I call it the “ January Effect “, and as leaders we need to take full advantage of it.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2016

It was a conversation that forever changed my vision of “ corporate leadership “, and put me on the more human path. It also taught me the immense value of an open heart and mind. The funny thing was, it wasn’t a chat with a boss, or a mentor, or a teacher that set me straight. It wasn’t a concerned friend or colleague who wanted to pass along helpful advice.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 3, 2016

Washington Crossing The Delaware by Emanuel Leutze, MMA-NYC, 1851. “Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages” – George Washington. I was never a great student of American History and the Revolutionary War when I was younger, only learning the most basic details of what occurred 240 years ago to secure the Independence of the United States of America.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 10, 2016

Six years ago I published a little free ebook, “ Leadership From a Glass Half-Full: The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into The Pool” It was a way for me, as I wrote at the time, to “share my hard-earned lessons with leaders of all stripes, but particularly new and emerging ones – ones looking for the kind of guidance that I didn’t get” 14, 338 downloads later (thank you!

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Can a company really “measure its heart”? As more human leaders, we instinctively know that there’s a strong correlation between a caring, connected and happy team and successful financial performance, but we also know that finding a way to measure and confirm that correlation is an essential part of sustaining (and even tightening) it over the long haul.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 11, 2016

I recently chatted with Jamie Newman on his “Your Best Manager” podcast – in it, I talk about (among a few other things): My best mentor (and why). My biggest people management challenge. Why leaders should be more human. The 5 lessons everyone should know before they start leading. And my 3 favorite business books. Check it out! Then visit Jamie’s podcast page for more links and info related to our chat.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2016

This is another installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership”. This excerpt tells two very contrasting stories about a job of leadership that is never, ever, easy – having to let people go. There’s an easy and expedient way, one without context or heart, and a more human way, that requires forethought, empathy, and intestinal fortitude.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 3, 2016

In 2007, while SVP of Operations for Bresnan Communications, a cable TV company with 300,000 customers in 4 Rocky Mountain states, I was searching for a solution to a problem that had been eluding me for many years – a simple way to connect the 1,100 employees I was responsible for around a higher cause that went beyond profit. Fortunately, late that year a dedicated field technician in Grand Junction, Colorado and my faulty memory during a morning shower in Billings, Montana were the catalysts

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Respect is a much-talked and much-written about cornerstone of effective leadership, particularly the more human kind. Yes, leaders need to be respected because it leads to a bond of trust that enables a culture of accountability and success. But it’s not all about YOU getting respect. It’s just as much about them being respected too. It’s about the people you lead.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 31, 2016

“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”. ~Mary Oliver. I was one of the lucky people who got to know and work with Dr. Kathy Cramer, who passed away on July 13th, 2016 due to complications from a cancer she fought with great bravery and tenacity. I reached out to her in 2014 after I read an interview she had done with the Washington Post.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 24, 2016

It’s not the “ doing ” that really makes the difference. And it’s even not how fast , or how well. Nope, it’s none of these. The key to lifetime of productivity is simply this: Making the best selection of WHAT to do at any given moment. (Although it certainly doesn’t hurt to do things fast and well – as long as they’re the RIGHT things). In any day there are probably hundreds, if not thousands, of actions you can take.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 17, 2016

Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it. This morning I was in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas (where I’m attending a wedding later this evening) and as I was flipping through the channels on the TV looking for a news update I stumbled across something else that couldn’t escape my attention. It was a man in a purple suit and a tan top hat, singing to a bunch of kids in a chocolate factory…… “If you want to view paradise.

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