Terry Starbucker

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.

Leadership 167

Leadership Charisma Committee Conference 167

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

As leadership shifts away from hierarchical decisions-at-the-top-slowly-cascading-downward, to social networks and self-organizing, knowing how to use convening power becomes critical. In another case, a company in trouble convened 35 top people for a leadership conference; post-turnaround, they convened 350. Get to action.

Power 14

Power How To Committee Middle Management 14

Strategy Driven

MARCH 18, 2011

We believe coherence confers a substantial premium, and we’ve measured it. PL and CM: Our take on capabilities and how they work in systems is new, as is our view of coherence as this three-part balanced system that confers a measurable premium. SD : What new ideas are you bringing to the table with capabilities-driven strategy?

Resources 53

Resources Industry System Strategy 53

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2012

But the CBO and the Joint Committee on Taxation now estimate that the insurance-coverage provisions of the ACA will have a net cost of close to $1.2 A lot of it had to do with one little passage about the Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as Obamacare: The president pledged that health-care reform would not add a cent to the deficit.

Insurance 12

Insurance Health Care Ryan Storytelling 12

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 25, 2013

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. Unfortunately, the follow-through never transpired after the media coverage died down. At a later news conference, OSHA announced that it was assessing its smallest fine, as a result of the forthright way in which my client had handled the crisis. by Hank Moore.

Crisis Management 82

Crisis Management Crisis Risk Management Budgeting 82

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

In fact, the increasing focus on pay by policy makers, shareholders, and the media has magnified its importance as a gauge of success for top executives and created a vicious cycle of ever-higher pay demands. In Sweden, most institutional investors take advantage of opportunities to sit on the nominations committee of investee companies.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 25, 2012

Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren't what they used to be. Status no longer confers a "Get Out of Jail Free" card, as too many indicted and convicted executives have learned. Status doesn't confer privacy or exclusivity either. Arrogance doesn't pay.

Conference 11

Conference Open-book Committee Learning-by-Doing 11

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2011

The rash of mea culpas we've seen in recent months — culminating this week in Congressman Anthony Weiner's press conference to explain his tawdry tweets — had brought to mind a mistake-fuelled media frenzy from my past: Howard Dean's famous scream, and the lessons we learned from it. So how do you move forward?

How To 14

How To Committee Media Crisis 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Directors in a range of industries have been stung by media reports that political intermediaries used corporate money to help fund causes or candidates adverse to a firm’s business interests or its espoused values and positions. . ” Yet the freedom bestowed on corporations by Citizens United comes with serious risk.

Politics 8

Politics Committee CPA Policies 8