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

APRIL 8, 2012

“ Success Covers a Multitude of Blunders ”. That was a famous quote from George Bernard Shaw, and it has always stuck with me throughout my career as a leader and executive. But if I was truly determined to overcome, or “cover” them, I absolutely needed to learn from every failure, and leverage that accumulated learning into success.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

After all, it’s the nature of a business - going from Point A to Point B as quickly and efficiently as possible, to gain a competitive advantage and secure the market share necessary for success. I experienced this personally in my corporate career. In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 14, 2016

So naturally there are a lot of people out there trying to make great impressions and move up the ladder of success. There is a lot of truth to the saying “ 90% of success is showing up” – that is, provided it isn’t after the appointed hour. (Nearly) everybody in the business world has a boss. But the reality it, only so many succeed.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The key lies in how we handle success – and our egos. It simply registers in our head as a “success”. The problem is, there is ALWAYS something that can be learned from success – things that can often expose weaknesses that, if left unaddressed, could cause trouble down the road. Our subconscious takes that, and runs with it.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2014

That person was Jack Kent Cooke. He was quite the successful man when I met him back in 1987. As you would imagine from the success I just outlined, there wasn’t a whole lot of “can’t” in this guy. Yes, in 1988 I banished that word from my vocabulary, and stuck to my guns pretty much thereafter.

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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. Positivity. And… Love.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 15, 2012

” I was 27 when I was asked this question by my first boss, a very successful serial entrepreneur. He was a very impatient person, and didn’t like extended debate and discussion about big decisions. “There are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?”

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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.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 24, 2013

Have you been in the Mediocre Zone? I’ve been there several times in my career, and it was brutal. Let your team stumble, then right themselves – on their own – on the way to success. You’ve entered the “ Mediocre Zone” All because your boss was looking over your shoulder.

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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. It pushed me really, really hard to persevere, and “win” the battle. To get a team to success based on caring, more human leadership, and a culture of accountabilty. I needed a nemisis.

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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.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 17, 2012

At that point I thought my career was over. I owe so much of my success as a leader and public speaker to that horrible moment, because it taught me so many things. Because it’s true – what doesn’t kill your career makes you stronger. It was so embarrassing. But there was one more embarrassment to come.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 26, 2012

” I used to hear this early in my career and feel pretty satisfied about it – after all, someone was praising me for getting the job done. And who doesn’t want to be praised? “Good Job!” Later on, I became a leader and discovered the real hazards of those two little words. Good isn’t good enough.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 9, 2011

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Recently a survey was conducted that asked preteens about their long term career aspirations - the top three were sports star, pop star and actor.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Fortunately, (way, way back in 1982) I started my career as a CPA and auditor, and I learned about this thing called “ Professional Skepticism “. But swallow it I did, and I rushed into my career with my skepticism meter cranked up to 10, expecting to ferret out any fraud that came my way.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

Every successful leader gets this question posed to them at one time or another: “How did you do it?” ” It’s always enlightening to read and hear the answers, because, after all, these folks have the benefit of hindsight to piece together all the relevant and important steps that led them to the top of the heap.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. Success begets success. I started as a CPA back in 1982, and was always pretty handy around a spreadsheet (even when they were just 12-column green pads).

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 2, 2012

Success is a beautiful thing. I succumbed to that fear a few times earlier in my career, and fortunately, I had some great mentors that pointed it out to me. We all want it, because it’s the undisputed champion in measuring our professional selves. We cherish it, because we know what it’s like to fail (because we all do).

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

She has faced many of these realities herself, during her career as an investment banker, deal maker, and business strategist. The “Secret&# of success is not just a great idea, a positive attitude, and venture funding. A lot of us are so impatient when it comes to this – we want instant success.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

I wanted to be a leader – something I had promised myself I’d doggedly pursue since I had hit my career bottom two years earlier. I will not soon forget the time I was crowing about achieving a 95% success rate on a certain metric, and he turned to me and said “Terry, I don’t understand – why not 100%? Why can’t you get 100%?).

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 29, 2015

Lucky I was a good listener too, because they helped me immensely in hitting the success trifecta of More Human leadership – A great company, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader (me). Advice that I leaned on and absorbed into my being for the long haul, and for my betterment. What were these awesome pieces of advice?

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

I’ve been in that situation a few times in my career, where we had acquired existing operations that were, for the most part, been ignored or marginalized by their previous corporate bosses. ” For our investment to be successful, we needed to break down that wall, and build a bridge. We’re wary.

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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. They are moments where you literally plant a flag and say “This is it! This is where I’m going!!” ” And sometimes, you get to ask a brave follow up question, to those who have witnessed the moment.

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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. A successful company, A happy team, And a fulfilled YOU. It was “success”, but it felt empty.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 7, 2015

When I moved here to Portland in 2010 I wasn’t really looking for those folks – I had just gotten out of a long-time corporate career, mostly in the Cable TV business, and was looking to settle into a nice business/leadership consulting practice whilst I kept writing my blog and my book.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

What’s more, my actions in concert with this immutable resulted in a big personal and professional payoff – business success and a leadership experience that was hugely satisfying and fulfilling. Selflessness is not something we learn about in college, or even in the first few years of our professional careers.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 21, 2015

I started my career as an accountant, right out of college. This was, without question, the “STEP ONE” to my leadership success, and I believe to yours as well. This later became the foundation for what I call the “trifecta” of More Human leadership – business success, happy employees, and a fulfilled leader).

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

So, instead of taking on the pile that was on my desk, that day I decided to tidy up some of my history files – files I had kept over the course of my career for one reason or another in the back of a file cabinet. There are some moments in your career that leave an indelible imprint – moments that end up defining WHO you are.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 15, 2011

For the first 18 years of my career in the cable TV business, I believed the answer to both of those questions was “Yes&# , and said so whenever given the opportunity in front of my staff and teammates. Humans like to measure their success. But I could never offer a direct numerical “proof&# to support that belief.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2014

It wasn’t a coincidence that my poker career ended about the same time I took up blogging – I had substituted one goal for another, almost without missing a beat. Blogging saved me from a very unsuccessful poker career. I didn’t lose anything , but I didn’t make much either. I knew I had to “fold” on one thing, and start another.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 23, 2015

the recent Amazon.com piece in the NY Times) , you CAN can create a high energy culture of accountability, achieve business success, and be a good human at the same time. Contrary to what you may have been reading on the business pages these days (i.e. I put down that marker a couple of years ago , and it defines More Human Leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Earlier on in his career, Adams uttered this famous quote: “Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”. We need to be relentless AND humble in our pursuit of success. It is using “we” and casting aside “I”.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 7, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Don’t Be A Victim of Success (Keep Climbing) by Starbucker on March 7, 2010 You set a goal, and with a lot of hard work, you hit it. You’ve achieved success. Standing still is akin to going backwards.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

His personal and political skills were so good, and his community outreach efforts had been so successful, that we had started to call him “Senator” around the company. One of my old bosses said to me once, a long time ago, “Terry, my boy, if you really want to be a success in your career, don’t be afraid to hire people smarter than you. ”.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

How do you balance those two things in successfully moving forward with your career? Terry: Tell me about your partnership with Darren Rowse – your book “ ProBlogger ” was quite the success (it’s still ranked 2,194 on Amazon a year and-a-half after its release). Chris: I have always believed that we progress as people by 1.

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