Terry Starbucker

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The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced?

Terry Starbucker

I can understand a backlash against old-school “bosses” Peter Drucker himself cast a wary eye on the classic middle manager, and Rogoway noted a great quote in the article: Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done. . That’s a leader.

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Getting Things Done: How Great Leadership Moves From Talk To Action

Terry Starbucker

I break it down to 4 steps: Set up meaningful metrics and measurements, both short-term and long-term, that cascade down the organization. What are the critical steps in going from talk to action? Photo by Shutterstock / Sergej Nivens ) .

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3 Numbers Every Leader (And ALL Their Followers) Should Know

Terry Starbucker

It’s when every person within an organization, leaders and all, is focused, coordinated, and pointed in the same direction, under a common purpose, and with a high level common set of goals and objectives. The last step in making the theory of 3 numbers work is to keep them on the minds of every single person in the organization.

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Accountability & Metrics: My Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership (Part 2)

Terry Starbucker

We asked for, and got, a culture of accountability at all levels of the organization, which enabled us to sustain a level of high performance that exceeded whatever could have been achieved through traditional “bossman” leadership. But it wasn’t going to be easy. Here’s how the theory flows from that premise. How did I do this?

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