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. Yes, you can do this – why not tell your boss what you want (respectfully, of course)?

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

He taught the core course for any accounting major (known as “Intermediate Accounting”). They may feel like they are being “successful” because a lot of boxes are being checked, but it’s an illusion. But most of the time, I’ve taken on the hard stuff first. And I have Brother George to thank for it.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Last summer, the local startup Treehouse , a producer of online education courses, decided to create a no-boss workplace by eliminating all the manager positions from its 61-person workforce, thus creating the ultimate “flat” organizational structure. Is it a factor of how many projects the worker successfully pitches?

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Answer these questions NOW , take whatever corrective action is necessary, and give your team a better chance for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course. Should you reshuffle a few things now before things get too busy?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 22, 2017

Great leaders can “remember” past success by looking beyond the objective results and putting a fresh eye on the people, process and policy that achieved them. Of course, there could also be times where the critique itself should be forgotten. Immediate Forgetfulness.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 14, 2014

Great leaders “remember” past success by looking past the objective results and putting a fresh eye on the people, process and policy that achieved them. Of course, there could also be times where the critique itself should be forgotten. Otherwise, it’s hard to raise the bar when history is telling you that you’ve already nailed it.

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Objective Policies Course Leadership 279

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. Just like this flyer, effective leaders soar in their purpose of serving others and, in the process, achieve unprecedented heights of success.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 29, 2013

Answer these questions NOW , take whatever corrective action is necessary, and give your team a better chance for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course. Do you need to reshuffle a few things now before things get too busy?

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 20, 2013

It was a simple little post on January 22nd about Peter Drucker , and his philosophy that employees are “ an asset, not a cost “ In hindsight, that one post, and all that subsequently came after, played a major role in my success as a leader.

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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?” Decision made.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Then there are the companies that choose to take a more holistic approach to leadership development, and here is where you’ll find the greatest success. Take a closer look behind their success, and you’ll find those four things in practice. Follow their lead, and build a better company of your own.

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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

MAY 17, 2015

Let’s get beyond those basics and into a little leadership fine-tuning – those refinements and adjustments that keep that wheel of success turning without too much friction. But it’s essential for long-term success to develop those skills, and quickly. And yes, it takes time away from the regular course of business.

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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

MARCH 11, 2012

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. The closer one tends to get toward their “mountain top”, be it a numerical goal, a promotion, or success in an initiative, the journey becomes much more difficult.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 11, 2011

The other night I thoroughly enjoyed a holiday play at the Portland Repertory Theater, and marveled at the ability of the actors to take on multiple (and quite dissimilar) roles during the course of the production.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 24, 2015

Cruising around the old neighborhoods, and past my old elementary school and playground, brought back some childhood memories that played a huge role in putting me on the path to business success. Of course, it was a slow and steady march rather than a miraculous turnaround, but that fire has always been THERE, urging me forward.

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Class Motivation Follow-up Course 150

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 21, 2013

It was the spring of 1981 – my junior year in college. I had just successfully completed my “core” courses in my selected major of accounting with “A”s across the board, and was sailing towards my senior year with a bright future of debits and credits ahead of me. Accounting seemed right for me.

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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

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders As Diplomats: A Short Course in Cross-Functional Communication by Starbucker on September 26, 2010 Imagine this scenario: You have assembled a crack team that is highly motivated, efficient, and effective.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

Over the course of a working life, how many times have we been let down by our leaders – for promises not kept, changes that are never made, money that is never spent, or raises that never come ? ” For our investment to be successful, we needed to break down that wall, and build a bridge. A cynical world.”

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Of course I’m fair!” . “You didn’t treat us fairly – some people got special treatment. We were afraid to confront you about it.”. It hits you hard. Your knee-jerk response is denial, and you jump into the conversation. “Me? Not being fair?

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2016

Of course our CEO could talk with passion and pride about the company. The past companies under his leadership were admired as well-run and successful enterprises that took care of their employees. We couldn’t do the corporate boilerplate anymore. No more suits flying in, giving the company pitch, and flying out again.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 4, 2015

Because getting there, of course, is at least half the fun. Bring those core elements into your leadership speechmaking, and see if you too can rally the troops to the More Human trifecta – a successful company, happy employees, and a fulfilled leader. Or the greatest company in Montana. I mean the greatest company. .

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The One Question Every Successful Leader Must Answer (Even Before It Is Asked) by Starbucker on February 8, 2010 The supervisor is frustrated – in his mind, he has done everything right to manage his team to a successful outcome.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Over the years I had built up my vision, established the measuring sticks, established a culture of accountability, and set a course for greatness, and it all peaked in my eyes when I taped that speech. It began to occur to me that I felt like a baton needed to be passed. I saw that Clark – you’ve done a fantastic job”.

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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

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

JUNE 14, 2015

The foundations for their success were in place. Of course, iPod felt that too, and Sting’s “Fragile” started to play soon afterward. My mind was now swimming in a mix of emotions, empathy, excitement, determination, dreams of success – and worry. For all those born beneath an angry star. Lest we forget how fragile we are.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 3, 2010

Over the course of my career I’ve assembled a very handy annual New Year’s “Checklist&# that helps get me focused and ready for the challenges to come in the days and months ahead, and well positioned for success. It’s much harder to give course corrections later if the ship has drifted way off course.

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Leadership Ethics Course Learning-by-Doing 418

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. I was looking for clues in my past to show me a way forward.

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Leadership Budgeting Newsletter Bottom-up 196

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Stay tuned for the next 20 over the course of the next several weeks. I wanted to come up with something that could unify 1,100 people with a focus on common operating principles – a guiding light to overall success. Here’s the entire list of 25, and today, I discuss the first 5 (they are in bold ). Teach Instead of Tell.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 12, 2014

After making this discovery, I put it into practice and over the course of the next 6 years I embarked a journey that eventually led me to what I believe is the Holy Grail great leadership – the success trifecta: A successful company. It played a big role in my success and in the achievement of that Holy Grail.

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Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing Books 311

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 16, 2014

The “Big Mistake” is working really, really hard to sprint up that hill, heading towards the top and a big success, only to hit a brick wall just a short distance from the finish line. And of course I’d hit it, have to face reality and let those people go, and start again. Hire better and cut your losses sooner.

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Team Core Competence Leadership Metrics 375

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 23, 2013

And personally, I knew I wouldn’t be successful until I could stand in a room and hear other people consistently use the word “we” Of course, I had to start with myself. And, we built a more successful company. Did this all work? Just because of the most important word, “we”? Yes, WE did.

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Policies Team Building Teamwork Operations 284

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 5, 2018

This is the 3rd and final part of 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. To get my team to success based the more human philosophies we were laying down. There was no emptiness.

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Leadership Energy Metrics Stress 171

Terry Starbucker

APRIL 25, 2010

And therein lies THE difference in the building of a successful business – a difference every leader must take heed of. That is, of course, if you believe it yourself. Of course it never hurts to also have some objective evidence to prove your case, and we do, in spades. Stories reinforce action. Good stuff.

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