Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I drifted around for several years as an executive before I finally sat down and wrote “I want to be a leader” , and more importantly, also wrote down the “ why “ That was the real beginning of the journey, declaring that intention. In my case, there were 4 : Quality, Service, Leadership, and Accountability.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

Just about everyone has the famous book “ The Joy of Cooking ” in his or her pantries. She had also written a book, called “ The Joy of Leadership ”. In the dream, she appeared in a boardroom full of executives in her full kitchen regalia, a wooden spoon in one hand, and the book in the other. And so she began…….

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JUNE 24, 2012

You’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. Great leadership demands exuberance. ” Great leadership demands exuberance. It’s gut check time. It certainly did.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. It is not all strategy, process, execution and profits. At last, they’re all here! Blend Will and Humility.

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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. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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JUNE 3, 2012

That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. But there’s an interesting question that bears some deep thought here: “While all these other things may change, do the fundamental lessons of great leadership remain timeless?” It’s really a “stealth” strength we need to leverage.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

Note: This is the 3rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” The first installment is here , and the second here. . It is a key step towards building the culture of accountability that is the heart of More Human leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well. Lead well!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Stay tuned for more news and tidbits about this book project. I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. Our quest needed to stay fresh, vibrant, and exuberant, and the best way to do that was through the words and actions of a new generation of leadership. Getting Past The Pinnacle. It was time.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 4, 2014

She spent the first 10 years of her business as a consultant to large companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Charles Schwab and Cisco Systems, where she worked with thousands of executives, managers and employees. How to successfully “surf” your fears, and the great example cited in the book. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 20, 2018

Because of this understanding, we often just want to hit the “go” button and start pushing, immediately focusing on execution. It involves the essence of good leadership, and related to the 3rd core principle of my 8 Principles of More Human Leadership – in fact, it’s inspired by the very definition of the word “leader”: Showing The Way .

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

Back in 1987, when I was hired by Jack Kent Cooke at the ripe young age of 27 to be the COO of a cable TV company, he wasted very little time to initiate me into the world of executive management. During our very first meeting, before I could even take a sip of my first cup of coffee, Cooke looked me straight in the eye, and said. “My

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 20, 2013

In 2006 I started blogging about leadership. It was wonderful to read comments on my posts, both positive and negative, because they helped me refine my leadership thinking. Then, with that refinement in hand, I’d go back to my leadership post and put it into practice, and see what happened. Leadership'

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 29, 2014

Five surprising words that stop good executives from being great leaders. The two critical leadership lessons in the book. Leadership More Human Podcast' Why you should put a price tag on everything. What’s wrong with benchmarking and brainstorming. Why businesses should MacGyver it.

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DECEMBER 18, 2016

There is a short period of time where there are no deficits, or shortfalls, or catch-ups – the clock is running, but most of the scores aren’t posted until the first week in February (after the books close). Read one of my favorite posts, The Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ll never forget my first day as an executive. I invite you to read more about these lessons, and how I “discovered&# them through my own experience, in my e-book “ Leadership From A Glass Half-Ful l&#. Here’s the link: Download the E-Book. Now I had responsibility for well over 1,000.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

The teaching element of leadership is so often overlooked and overshadowed by more glamorous things like vision, strategy and execution. Note: This lesson can also be found in my FREE e-book, “Leadership From a Glass Half-Full – The 5 Lessons You Need To Learn Before You Jump Into The Pool” – download it now!

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 16, 2015

When I look back at 998 posts and pinpoint the day I completely embraced the concept of More Human leadership, and took my first shot at defining it, it was the day I wrote this post in February 2010. My first executive leadership opportunity came very early for me – at age 27. I vividly remember the first time I tried.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

The real leadership level, as a COO of a cable TV company at age 27. I lived or died on how well I executed. I lost some of those battles initially, and got myself into a lot of hot water by meddling too much (I write about one of my more “favorite” ones in my E-book). And I got it, assignment after assignment.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

I love leadership lessons that are backed by facts and history. 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. What’s so earth shatteringly wonderful about this?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 5, 2012

Let’s dig a little deeper… 1) Mastery at the craft – Malcolm Gladwell’s now-famous assertion (in his book “ Outliers” ) about needing 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in any given skill is vividly on display when you watch gymnasts execute extremely difficult maneuvers with seeming ease.

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DECEMBER 27, 2015

If you look that up in the accounting standards book , it will tell you that “(auditors) need to overcome some natural tendencies—such as overreliance on client representations—and biases and approach the audit with a skeptical attitude and questioning mind.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 26, 2011

There is a short period of time where there are no deficits, or shortfalls, or catch-ups – the clock is running, but most of the scores aren’t posted until the first week in February (after the books close). What better time to whip them up into a frenzy of execution? How can we do this? Yep, it’s time to BRING IT.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 28, 2012

In one corner, there are the business owners and executives. I’ve been in that role as a corporate executive, and what worked for me as the “knot” was to come up with a metric that could be tied much more closely to the actions of the rank and file, and yet, could also be closely correlated to profit.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 3, 2010

Tweet This Post Tagged as: Leadership , non-verbal communication { 20 comments… read them below or add one } Shaun Emerson October 3, 2010 at 7:16 pm Terry, Love the list. I once had to ask permission of an executive VP to be allowed to close my office door for such an occasion. Popularity: 44% [ ? I found this ridiculous.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Real Job Of Leadership by Starbucker on November 4, 2010 The concept of execution in the business world is a multifaceted exercise, especially from the perspective of the leader. Go inspire! Popularity: 2% [ ?

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 9, 2015

As always, I’m eternally grateful that you’re here today to read this post and join my More Human Leadership journey. Much quicker than writing a whole book about it, and less complicated than writing a song. This is the second in a series of my 3 favorite posts over the past 9+ years, in anticipation of my 1,000th (!)

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes by Starbucker on December 5, 2010 One of my favorite things to do as a leader is make a big speech or presentation. – John F.

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Terry Starbucker

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. That school is now closed. SURESHKUMAR.S

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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. What is this “leadership wonder drug&# ?

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 14, 2015

Note: Here’s another preview excerpt from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” It’s a true story of a road trip that proved to me that making personal connections to build trust and respect is a necessary part of being a More Human leader. . I hated it.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

This post is another in my series of excerpts from my “More Human” book manuscript. I’d always appreciated the Code of the West ( from Jim Owen’s book, “Cowboy Ethics” ) – I saw it often on posters in the offices of many of my staff in Wyoming: Live each day with courage. I’ll talk to the executive team, and let you know.

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MAY 9, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders as Teachers: Two Things You Absolutely, Positively Must Do To Be Effective by Starbucker on May 9, 2010 As someone who loves to read, I can get leadership advice from the strangest places.

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OCTOBER 8, 2009

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leadership Hiding In Plain Sight: The Return of Common Sense (WBF, Day 2) by Starbucker on October 8, 2009 Bill Clinton at the World Economic Forum, 10/7/09 This is my second post of observations from the World Business Forum in NYC.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 4, 2011

These are all quotes by Emily Post (1872-1960), who literally “wrote the book&# on etiquette in 1922 – a book that still appears on bookstore shelves today. And why do people still buy this book? Leadership, to them, is an honor. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.&#. Yes, manners matter.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 9, 2017

Get the books done by real bookkeepers – So many small biz owners take on the accounting stuff themselves even though it’s clearly not their area of expertise. And so, the books can get jumbled enough to where the path to profit is hard to discern. How can you lead your small business to that “real” profit?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It’s nearly impossible for someone to really move the dial when mistrust of leadership is so high, because it is such a powerful destructive force in the workplace. You and your team now have the proper momentum to execute. Popularity: 3% [ ? Sign-up for More You can subscribe to this blog and Ill come straight to you!

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