Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

We have cultivated a unique culture and management approach that we call the Hacker Way. At Facebook, allegiance to the hacker way permeates every aspect of the business, from product innovation to organizational structure to management and training. You can find her on Twitter: @Ekaterina and her blog www.ekaterinawalter.com.

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OCTOBER 23, 2016

But most of the time, I’d manage to put them in order of their importance. Mary’s University in San Antonio – I wrote another piece about him and his remarkable teaching methods for Rosa Say’s blog, way way back in 2006). And oh yes, that officially qualifies me as a dinosaur.). I would always be making “to do” lists on those pads.

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MAY 15, 2014

I loved this place back then, enough that when it was time to put a name on this blog, I used “ Starbucker ” (yep, that’s where it came from). It was a simple little visit to my “namesake” business, where I hadn’t ordered a certain espresso drink in many moons.

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APRIL 26, 2015

A few years ago (pre-blogging) I really enjoyed reading the book “John Adams” by David McCullough, so it’s been no surprise that I’ve been enthralled by the HBO miniseries of the same name that is in the middle of its seven episode run ( 2015 note: now available on DVD ). Thanks again, read on, and lead well!

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DECEMBER 4, 2016

” question, and after a good bit of reflection, a lot of blog posts musing about it, and the benefit of hindsight, I can break it down to 12 steps to the leadership summit: Step 1: Declare Your Intention to Lead (and WHY) – Before you can even start the climb, you have to WANT to do it.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 21, 2015

I obtained my CPA certificate, rose quickly through the ranks and within 5 years I was a Manager on the fast track to partner. But since the “really desire” wasn’t there, I was unable to fully get myself in the right place to BE a leader, instead of just a manager. Funny thing was, it was 5 years after I “accidentally” became one.

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JULY 23, 2018

Along the way there were lessons that became teachings, and then blog posts , and then, eventually a manifesto – my 8 Principles of More Human Leadership. Manages to an end, not a cause. I used to tell my managers that we weren’t paid by the word. It was fantastic to get to the trifecta and that place of fulfillment.

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AUGUST 9, 2015

Me, I’m going to lay it out in a blog post. During a whole process of preparing for and delivering a presentation to executive management, I realized that a great deal of what was driving me to do a good job was similar to how I would want to please my parents as a child. Others have put it in a song (e.g.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

Blogging about leadership organizes and crystallizes your thoughts – When I started writing about leadership on my blog back in 2006, I was surprised at how the act of putting things “on paper&# was so effective at taking the concepts in your head, organizing them, and converting them into quicker action.

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JULY 18, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full So You Think You Can Lead: 6 Surefire Ways To Tell If You’re Making The Grade by Starbucker on July 18, 2010 I’m a big fan of “So You Think You Can Dance&# on FOX TV. Thanks again, and all the best!

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them by Starbucker on November 1, 2009 In our quest to become great leaders we take on a constant stream of internal battles. Which person do you want to be?

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 21, 2017

It’s one of my favorite chapters from my “More Human” book manuscript, a project that has yet to fully see the light of day (and that’s another blog post in and of itself, but I’ll save it for another time). Finally, I arrived in Kalispell and checked into my hotel. I looked out my window.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership Schizophrenia: The Fine Line Between Hubris and Humility by Starbucker on September 19, 2010 Leadership is a balancing act. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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OCTOBER 31, 2010

If only all hiring managers would not be afraid to hire someone smarter than they are. This is facilitated by their manager and is instrumental in building a “Communication Link&# between the manager and new-hire. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! Thanks Terry!

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders As Diplomats: A Short Course in Cross-Functional Communication by Starbucker on September 26, 2010 Imagine this scenario: You have assembled a crack team that is highly motivated, efficient, and effective.

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APRIL 29, 2010

I had the same “trial by fire&# at age 25, and if not for patient team members who let me do more than a few “do-overs&# I would have left management in favor of logging. Change management, employee engagement, and other initiatives are the spices, the leadership lessons you’ve provided are the supporting sauce.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Maybe younwill write part 2 To Rant Or Not To Rant (in that blog comment)! Coach of a High School Hockey Team and a by day manager at work. Being yelled at is not influential on the behavior of your emplyees because you, as manager/leader, are not in charge of their motivation…they are! Thanks for writing this.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership – What’s Love Got To Do With it? 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. Thank you for sharing!

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OCTOBER 21, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The 7 Essential Truths About Social Media by Starbucker on October 21, 2010 Photo by webtreats It’s been 5 years now since I jumped into the Social Media pool. digital ads, community pages, blogs, YouTube, etc.),

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MARCH 15, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Missing Link In Building The Perfect Team by Starbucker on March 15, 2010 They are often thrown into their jobs head first. But a lot of them do not, and that leads to lot of unnecessary upper management intervention.

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DECEMBER 2, 2012

One of the greatest challenges of leadership is managing time, a limited resource that has to be used with the utmost care and consideration. You then start the fire drill – two days of phone calls, e-mails, and meetings involving many members of your team, devoted to that single blog post. Believe me, I know… .

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MAY 31, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Leadership Wonder Drug (But Careful, Use As Directed) by Starbucker on May 31, 2010 It’s a sentence that can make a huge difference in the workplace. But it certainly shouldn’t be thrown around like candy either.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely by Starbucker on February 14, 2010 My first executive leadership opportunity came very early for me – at age 27. Cheers and Regards! Cosell note his passing.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Can Charisma Be Taught? This post was selected as one of the five best independent business blog posts of the week in my Three Star Leadership Midweek Review of the Business Blogs. Well, several.

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MARCH 10, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Why Social Media Is The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread – And Why It Isn’t by Starbucker on March 10, 2010 Think for a second about what sliced bread did for humanity. Well said, Terry! Cosell note his passing.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before It Is Asked) by Starbucker on February 8, 2010 The supervisor is frustrated – in his mind, he has done everything right to manage his team to a successful outcome.

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AUGUST 25, 2010

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. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! It could be your best decision in a while! Cosell note his passing.

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JUNE 13, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Why The Knee Is The Most Dangerous Part Of A Leader’s Body by Starbucker on June 13, 2010 Leaders are constantly processing information, and in the course of doing that are called upon to make decisions based on that information.

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JUNE 27, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Don’t Do Second Things First (A Core Lesson in Productivity) by Starbucker on June 27, 2010 Remember those yellow legal note pads? But most of the time, I’d manage to put them in order of their importance.

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APRIL 18, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Square Pegs, Round Holes, and the Peter Principle by Starbucker on April 18, 2010 In 1987, during my first few months as a fledgling executive, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J.

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JANUARY 24, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 5 Things Every Business Leader Should Know About Social Media by Starbucker on January 24, 2010 It’s the new elephant in the room. Blog about it. They should blog about chocolate. So what to do?

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JANUARY 17, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full How A Leader Needs To Think Like A Plumber (No Wrench Required) by Starbucker on January 17, 2010 Sometimes a leader needs to think like a plumber. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Thing Every Leader Has To Give Up (After They Worked So Hard To Get It) by Starbucker on October 28, 2010 I remember the first time I got it, only 4 months after I graduated from college. I was a “doer”.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 12, 2010

For this reason I have always made it a practice to go out of my way to speak to managers or write to corporate headquarters when I receive great service from an employee. The newspapers and blogs seem to excuse his behavior because his mother is ill. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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JANUARY 3, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full A Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year by Starbucker on January 3, 2010 As a leader, I’ve learned that getting off to a great start in a new year is very important.

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MAY 23, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Those Dreaded Meetings and Why You Should Learn to Love Them by Starbucker on May 23, 2010 It’s the office equivalent of a four letter word – “ meeting ”. Wouldn’t trade the success we have had for anything in the world.

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JULY 11, 2010

Make sure the entry-level managers are getting attention as well – these efforts will pay off when things get cranked up again in the fall. Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you! Either send your team to third party seminars, or better still, conduct one yourself. Cosell note his passing.

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