Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

There is a passage within that speech that has never failed to rally me forward when I was facing my leadership fears, or big decisions: “It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. Either case is a failure of leadership.” – Colin Powell.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse. The leadership part HAS to come first. I experienced this personally in my corporate career. How can a leader put leadership first? Leadership' EVERY time. Asking for trust and keeping your promises. Go for it, and lead well!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 26, 2013

In my quest for more human leadership , I’ve discovered a core truth. So what’s the secret to building such a place, and thus, achieving leadership greatness? So what’s the secret to building such a place, and thus, achieving leadership greatness? It takes more human leadership. Leadership'

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 13, 2013

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. 2) Offer your employees a nontraditional career path that is based on their contributions and value-based behaviors, and not on their age or credentials.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I’ve been fortunate enough in my 30 year career to have been asked that question too, and after a good bit of reflection, I can break it down to 10 essential steps: Declare Your Intention to Lead (and why)- Before you can even start the journey, you have to WANT to do it. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

I’ve considered myself a “hard charger” throughout my professional career – I’ve gone many years where I didn’t take the vacations that I was entitled to, or worse, turned a few vacations into remote work sessions. Ultimately, it’s all a matter of leadership expectations, and the examples that we set.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 21, 2014

I loved the practice of leadership. Specifically, More Human leadership. The “unanimous joy” I wanted did happen, and I was able to achieve the “trifecta” that is the core of More Human Leadership - A great company, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader. Leadership' And of course, lead well!

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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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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

At that stage of my career, I was hungry for guidance on what it took to be a great leader. But one of the best leadership lessons I ever got. It was 1987, and I had just started my first big executive job at a Cable TV company in Los Angeles. In just 29 words. Lead well!

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 27, 2012

He had hit a huge career pothole, and was at wits end as to how to recover. He got his first taste of leadership responsibilities back then, and he liked it. As one sentence led to another, something became clear – what he really liked about leadership was the simple act of making a difference. Should he just quit? But why?

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 17, 2014

I have been in those positions in my career, asking that same question after a big mistake: To Fire Or Not To Fire? That’s more human leadership. The post Torn From The Headlines Leadership Lesson: To Fire Or Not To Fire? Leadership' No matter the magnitude. In every instance.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are. I wanted to talk about leadership. I framed it that day as group of 10 leadership battles that leaders will constantly face, in any quest to be great. This is where I’m going!!”

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Indeed, these are short cuts on our leadership map, and early on in my career, I fell to temptation and tried just about all of them. Leadership' Assuming people know what you are thinking without telling them. Take my advice and don’t try these roads – I’ve been to the dead ends, and they’re not pretty.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 19, 2016

Behind the 8 Principles of More Human Leadership ( click HERE to see them on a separate PDF ) are simple truths, and the secrets to the success trifecta – a profitable company, a happy team, and a fulfilled YOU. I have lived these simple truths throughout my career, and they have never let me down. Accountability. Positivity.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 25, 2012

” I’ve heard this sentence a few times in my career, spoken about great leaders I have known and respected. The Cheerleader - This is where I call “leadership relentlessness” comes in. “Wow, they would walk through a brick wall for that guy!” The mountain is never too high.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 26, 2015

I always thought it was strange how great leadership was always thought to be vitally important to a businesses success, but yet it was quite often the least discussed thing in the meeting rooms, and the budget money allocated to “leadership training” was always limited (or the first thing to get cut back). Why is this the case?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 23, 2016

They used to be my constant companions earlier in my career, before PCs, smart phones, laptops, and tablets. Little did I know at the time that Brother George was not only teaching us about Intermediate Accounting, but giving us a leadership key to success, one that I use over and over again with my teammates: Don’t Do Second Things First!

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 22, 2012

It was the “right stuff” of physical stamina, courage and (a lot) of ego that put those men on top of a rocket, and as I moved forward with my chosen career in the business world, I realized that there was also a blend of “right stuff” necessary to climb to the top of the leadership mountain. And lead well!!

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Here are Lessons 6-10 of my 5-part series outlining 25 timeless leadership lessons -a primer and distillation of a lifetime of learning, and practicing, my great passion of leadership. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. This led me to pondering if this could work in a leadership situation.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

Leadership is one of my life’s great passions – and I’m pleased to share with you my journey (in three parts in 3 weeks) to what I consider to be the heart of great More Human leadership – the success trifecta. Along the way I learned SO many things about leadership, because I had the honor of actually DOING it.

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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. About 17 years ago, someone advised me I needed to be more “statesmanlike” in my leadership approach.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 7, 2015

As befitting my nearly 56 years on this planet, I’ve gotten to the point where my likelihood to alter behaviors, look at things differently, or, more pertinent to this website, change the way I define and practice great leadership, is pretty low. I guess I’m that proverbial old dog who’s not prone to learn new tricks.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 23, 2015

I’ve written to you 1,000 times because I really, really needed to, to enhance and explore my life, and my chosen vocation, leadership. Ah, leadership. Over the years this space progressed from personal ramblings from a glass half-full to a weekly discourse about my love for More Human leadership. It just wasn’t me.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 3, 2015

It’s been a relaxing and fun experience, but walking up to a par 3 hole that features a water hazard always brings back memories, not of a hole-in-one or a long holed putt, but a huge leadership (and life) lesson. The post How One Bad Round Of Golf Gave Me One Huge Leadership Lesson appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

(Terry’s Note: Hi all – Today I’m introducing a new series of posts, written by guest writer Adam Tenenbaum , called Front Line Leadership. Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 13, 2012

We scored many touchdowns that season, and even won a couple of games, but something bigger came out of it – my higher calling of leadership. The “job” wasn’t as big of a concern as what I knew was my vocation – leadership. Leadership is an honor, a responsibility, and a higher calling.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 21, 2015

I started my career as an accountant, right out of college. I had no real concept of “leadership” formed in my head. Which brings me to that day 5 years later, when I discovered the key to unlocking your desire, and in turn, finding your leadership destiny: Write Down Your Leadership Manifesto. I wanted to be a leader.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 11, 2018

In my never-ending quest for more human leadership , I’ve discovered an essential truth: If you encounter a workplace filled with people who love their jobs, you’ll find a great leader who made that happen. How does one build such a place, and thus, achieve leadership greatness? It takes more human leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

You’ve put in your time, done all the work, and you’re ready to climb up to the next rung on your career ladder. It’s time to get that promotion, and move up to a leadership role. Half-Full Book Review Leadership' The question is, are you ready? Putting the team’s best interest ahead of your own.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

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. As I preached many, many times to my staff in my leadership lessons, “ If you’re not going forward, you’re going backward ”.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 4, 2017

Many (many) years ago at the beginning of my management career, my new boss asked (no, ordered) me to read the book “ The Peter Principle ”, by Laurence J. I had just received one of the best and most important lessons I’d ever get as a leader, and better still, I got it early in my career. Especially when it comes to hiring.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2018

He simply had what the great leadership and business writer Tom Peters calls (in his great book “ In Search of Excellence” ) a “ bias towards action “. There are four elements simple decision-making that I’ve observed and successfully brought into my own leadership practice over the last 31 years.

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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, our leadership suffers. That “something” is stress and anxiety. Our decision-making, temperament, and focus is hampered. Exercise regularly.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 18, 2014

His “ chocolate and peanut butter ” moment in his career when he left a high-paying Silicon Valley job, and created the Taproot Foundation. The leadership imperative that comes out of the book, and why leaders can’t fake purpose. Leadership More Human Podcast'

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

I can also tell you that it ran in my head more than a few times during my leadership career – and I was really glad for it. For example, several years back we had a person in our company that was against, or fighting against, anything we were trying to do to stick to our philosophy of more human leadership. Leadership'

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 4, 2014

In 2005, she started the seminal blog “ Escape from Cubicle Nation ”, which quickly became, and still is, one of the top career and business blogs on the web (and one of the inspirations for this site). Leadership More Human Podcast' In the last 8 years, she helped hundreds of entrepreneurs to start successful businesses.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 8, 2012

That was a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw, and it has always stuck with me throughout my career as a leader and executive. Failure to Trust – When first taking on a leadership role, there’s always a strong “pull” to be involved in every decision, or to want to “sign off” on literally every dollar spent or contract signed.

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