Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2016

Rather, when we start the morning by collaborating with a team of engineers and then send emails to our marketing colleagues and then jump on a conference call, we want to know that those people really hear us. We must be able to talk about what is messy or sad, to have hard conversations with colleagues who are driving us crazy.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

Leaders are not genetic engineers. The personality profile also has to match. Because ultimately, that is what you really cannot change. I know, I have tried – and it is like putting a square peg into a round hole. The sooner you come to that realization, the better hires you will make.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

That customer’s trouble call got escalated, correctly, to one of our engineers in the NOC. The engineer did the requisite troubleshooting, and determined that they needed to reverse some of the network programming that was done the night before to fix it. We can’t fire that engineer Terry”. “I The bottom line was this –.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

On the contrary, when a leader is known for being a straight shooter – someone who can be believed when he or she says “ we are going to to this ” – it builds a huge reserve of respect that puts a lot of gas into the Awesome Team engine. VALUE the work and the quality of the work appropriately.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 19, 2010

Sanitation Engineer, more affectionately known as a “Garbage Man”. From 7AM to 3PM, five days a week, my teammates and I went up and down the alleys and streets of our town, collecting the trash, putting it into the back of large compactor truck, and then taking it to a “transfer center”.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2010

All you need is the Internet, and Google (or your favorite search engine). There are thousands upon thousands of people out there, on the Internet, who bravely decided to put “ life in first place “, took a huge risk, chucked their old job and way of life, and started over. We can all learn from and be inspired by them.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

My peers are engineers and surveyors, and we seem to believe that “right is right&# and if the idea is “right&# that other people should go with it…after all, we know best! – denise lee yohn Reed December 4, 2010 at 1:03 pm Terry – you are on the correct path on this one.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 18, 2010

Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be. We can’t change personalities that were locked in long before they arrived at the interview. Mr. Peter was right – you cannot put square pegs into round holes.

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Terry Starbucker

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

Out there for the search engines to find and world to read. It hides in journals, in Word docs on computers, on personal sites that never see the light of Google. For my some of my writing, that was me. I like writing so much I’ve bought a domain and started publishing my writings as a blog.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 20, 2010

Just remember the little engine that could and did. I am so glad that you wrote this post and recognized the value in even the minutest noble failures. You are such an inspiration to me, Terry! dee Gardner May 20, 2010 at 7:39 am Wonderful. I think this is why we all the love the quote from Spencer W. Kimball, that Nike uses.

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