Terry Starbucker

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Why You Shouldn’t Put The Business Cart Before The Leadership Horse

Terry Starbucker

It’s so tempting, once leaders get their marching orders to deliver profit targets, to dive right into the details of execution. I experienced this personally in my corporate career. Take the time to LEAD before you manage business execution, and you’ll hugely increase your odds of hitting that trifecta. EVERY time.

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Snap Out of It! How To Own The Terms Of Your Success

Terry Starbucker

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. In the last 8 years, she helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to start successful businesses.

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How Great Leaders Simplify Decision-Making (And Just Get Stuff Done)

Terry Starbucker

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. Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers.

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One Of The Best Leadership Lessons Ever….In Just 29 Words

Terry Starbucker

It was 1987, and I had just started my first big executive job at a Cable TV company in Los Angeles. At that stage of my career, I was hungry for guidance on what it took to be a great leader.

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Want To Be a Leader? 10 Ways To Impress Your Boss And Get That Promotion

Terry Starbucker

But if the play is called and it goes against you, despite your feelings you need to move on, and execute. You can easily derail any career momentum by being MIA when called upon, nose down in your last Tweet about the movie you saw last night. You can disagree with the boss, or even say “no”.

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So What Makes You Think You Can Be A Leader?

Terry Starbucker

I was 27 when I got a call from an executive search company about a job in Los Angeles. After that interview, I was called back to LA again, this time to meet with the Chief Executive. A punt, for sure, but was it a good one, or one that would set my career back a couple of decades? My future boss smiled even wider, and said.

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The 7 Failures That Will Make You a Better Leader

Terry Starbucker

That was a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw, and it has always stuck with me throughout my career as a leader and executive. “ Success Covers a Multitude of Blunders ”. What it ultimately told me was yes, I was going to fail – multiple times.

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