Terry Starbucker

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

I always preached that our company needs to be “the best” or “the greatest” at what it does. The post Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St. I can sum that up in three ways: 1) Dream big qualitatively, always.

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My All-Time Favorite Leadership Lesson (in only 29 words)

Terry Starbucker

My all-time favorite leadership lesson came at the perfect time. At age 27 I had just started my first big executive job at a Cable TV company in Los Angeles, with very little leadership experience. The post My All-Time Favorite Leadership Lesson (in only 29 words) appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St.

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The Next Great Leadership Experiment: Built Oregon

Terry Starbucker

It’s been almost 4 years now since my cable TV company was sold, and my wife and I packed up and moved from Stamford, Connecticut to Portland, Oregon. I still wanted to practice and study my vocation of leadership. So for me, as one of the founders of Built Oregon, it’s a grand leadership experiment. Leadership'

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My Favorite Leadership Pep Talk

Terry Starbucker

The Scene: Sally is about to start her first day as the manager of a division of a service company. The critical element to effective leadership is to be believed and trusted, and the best way to earn both of those things is to believe and trust in yourself. Leadership' It comes off forced, or worse, false.

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

Terry Starbucker

But before we go charging up that hill, we need to take a very necessary first step – to make sure the rest of the team is behind us, aligned, motivated, and in tune with the mission of the company. In other words, we can’t put the business cart before the leadership horse. The leadership part HAS to come first.

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Fish Heads and The Value of Great Leadership: An Unforgettable Lesson

Terry Starbucker

He knew from experience that most problems occur because of failures of leadership – in other words, he knew that to blame the process, or the customer facing staff, or a glitch with the product or service itself, was like treating symptoms instead of finding a cure. Actually, it took about 2 minutes. I had never heard that one before.

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How I Leveraged A Big Leadership Fail Into My First Leadership Win

Terry Starbucker

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. I realized that staying connected with my team, in a way that went beyond memos, e-mails and conference calls, was vital to building the trust that was so needed in this company.