Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 1, 2017

It’s a leadership wonder drug of 5 simple words that can make a huge difference in the workplace. Giving praise to teammates is one of the critical elements of effective leadership. Those norms should be carefully calibrated and modified as the team is built and executes its duties & responsibilities. What is it?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 9, 2014

On the latest edition of The More Human Podcast, my guest is August Turak , a successful entrepreneur, corporate executive, and award winning author of the recent book: “ Business Secrets of the Trappist Monks – One CEO’s Quest for Meaning and Authenticity ”. How leadership success relies on keeping promises- even the smallest ones.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

Every company has some kind of leadership development program, even if they don’t realize it. 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.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. The Leadership File And The Spreadsheet Assassin. I ended up pulling out an old manila file that had “leadership” hand-scribbled on the tab.

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Leadership Budgeting Newsletter Bottom-up 196

Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 8, 2017

A More Human Short Story – My Path To Leadership Joy . He had a style of leadership that I would classify as undeniably human, and personal. They were so accustomed to buttoned-down executives, that is, if they ever saw them at all. Here was this guy, showing up, and not “acting” like an executive.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 14, 2013

This “divergence of objective” between business stakeholders is a classic dilemma, existing in nearly every business that grows beyond a handful of founder/executives. This is what I did in my role as a leader and executive for the broadband company. That’s what great more human leadership is all about.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 22, 2013

There’s an interesting leadership experiment going on right now here in Portland. To be without them creates a leadership gap that cannot be filled with crowdsourced decision-making. The post The No-Boss Workplace: Can Great Leadership Be Crowdsourced? Leadership' But they do want a fence. I’ll be watching.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2017

As soon as we are labeled as a “leader”, especially one in the executive suite, there is a very strong tendency to put ourselves on a pedestal. We violated my #1 (and only) Golden Rule of Leadership. The post The One (and Only) Golden Rule of Great Leadership appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St. What did we do wrong?

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 23, 2014

Did you ever wish you could find a way to tap into the collective wisdom of over 200 CEOs, and find the most powerful leadership lessons? For the past 4 years, Adam has been conducting interviews with chief executives for Corner Office , a great feature about leadership and management in The New York Times. Featured Articles'

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 27, 2014

I wanted to talk about leadership. I framed it that day as group of 10 leadership battles that leaders will constantly face, in any quest to be great. These were the 10, and the way to “win” them: People vs. Process - It’s as simple as this: a process is only as good as the people executing it.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 27, 2014

And it was now time for Mr. Cooke to share with me a leadership secret. Shibulal, the chief executive of Infosys, talked about his discovery of those 7 words : Somebody once asked me a question I didn’t know the answer to, but I invented some answer. Leadership' ” “Ah, no sir”, I feebly replied. I was busted.

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

I drifted around for several years as an executive before I finally sat down and wrote “I want to be a leader” , and more importantly, also wrote down the “ why “ That was the real beginning of the journey, declaring that intention. In my case, there were 4 : Quality, Service, Leadership, and Accountability.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 1, 2012

There are times when a leadership vacuum can sneak up on you and your organization, one that can quickly erase all the hard work and success that preceded it. Read these tea leaves well, and in time, with hard work the vacuum will disappear, replaced by real and genuine leadership.

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 12, 2015

The post The Nightmare In The Executive Suite: 10 Scary Things A Leader Never Wants To Hear appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St. Leadership' Listen well my friends for these 10 scary things, and stay out of that Haunted House!

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 10, 2011

It was three months into my maiden voyage as an executive, at age 27. He had been in an executive’s chair for more than 20 years, and it didn’t take long for him to figure out what was going on. I was getting a hugely valuable lesson about leadership, and its importance in a business. No more smell. I never will.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 20, 2014

I took my biggest leadership gamble for the success trifecta - a profitable company, a happy team, and a fulfilled leader. It just requires execution through obedience driven by fear. The post The Biggest Leadership Gamble (and Why You Should Take It) appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St. It’s not as messy.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

It was 1987, and I had just started my first big executive job at a Cable TV company in Los Angeles. But one of the best leadership lessons I ever got. At that stage of my career, I was hungry for guidance on what it took to be a great leader. In just 29 words. Lead well!

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

It’s the third week of my 5-week series outlining 25 timeless leadership lessons. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. I am a big fan of those home improvement shows on TV, and I have found a great piece of leadership advice by watching interior decorators work with their clients.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 2, 2014

I’ve done some crazy leadership things, and nearly all of them dovetailed with another love of mine – music. I wanted to have a little fun – a balance with the hard work of executing a business plan. Leadership' I wanted to grab the audience’s attention – to break up any monotony that existed.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 21, 2011

Let’s keep that feeling in our heads and hearts, and now think about leadership. It’s my belief that great leadership has to exhibit the same essential elements of a great song - lyric, melody, tone, and rhythm. Its the sequence that matters, and the same holds true for great leadership. Lead well!

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 6, 2014

It’s the final installment of my five-week series outlining my 25 timeless (and time tested) leadership lessons that just plain work. “It is Solved by Walking” Take the Leadership Litmus Test. It is not all strategy, process, execution and profits. At last, they’re all here! Blend Will and Humility.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 24, 2012

You’ve framed your vision, set your strategy, built your model, hired your team, designed your processes, set expectations, and pushed confidently forward on executing your path to success. Great leadership demands exuberance. ” Great leadership demands exuberance. It’s gut check time. It certainly did.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2016

All leaders need to get good and consistent verbal feedback from their teammates, but there are 10 pieces of feedback in particular that ratify our more human effectiveness and eventually lead to leadership greatness. 1. “Thanks for showing up here today, we normally don’t see executives” – When just being there makes a huge difference.

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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. It’s a very powerful exercise well worth doing.

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Leadership Mission Statement Metrics Survey 150

Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 18, 2013

Leadership, that is. 3) Desire for Acceptance - I wrote about the best example of this in the original post - my drive to create executive presentations that would please my mentor and boss. Leadership' The more human kind. They were invaluable at keeping us all stable and focused (and sane). Cotton candy, anyone?

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Terry Starbucker

APRIL 17, 2016

The concept of execution in the business world is a multifaceted exercise, especially from the perspective of the leader. It’s the more human side of leadership. The post The Number One, Got To Get it Done Job of Leadership appeared first on Terry "Starbucker" St. It also puts our hearts in play.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 31, 2013

One of those lessons still resonates today,and it relates to my favorite subject – leadership. Leaders should never make what they’re doing all about them, to the point where they are “everywhere” in an organization. There is such a thing as TOO MUCH leadership. And my three piece went back into storage.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 5, 2015

Note: This is the 3rd installment of excerpts from my book manuscript of “More Human: A Journey To The Heart Of Great Leadership” The first installment is here , and the second here. . It is a key step towards building the culture of accountability that is the heart of More Human leadership. ” – Robert Orben.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 18, 2015

There comes a time in a more human leadership journey where something radically changes. And, I can assure you, this is something that is applicable all generations, from a baby boomer like me to the millennials now stepping up into leadership roles. What is this progression? It can be summed up with simple little pronouns.

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Leadership Team Succession Execution 150

Terry Starbucker

JUNE 3, 2012

That’s the nature of our vocation called leadership. But there’s an interesting question that bears some deep thought here: “While all these other things may change, do the fundamental lessons of great leadership remain timeless?”

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 17, 2015

Now that you’ve absorbed the 8 basic principles of More Human Leadership , learned the 10 immutable laws that go with them, and truly know the difference between a boss and a leader , it’s now time to dig a little deeper. Hire on personality, not core competencies -Leaders are not genetic engineers, nor should they be.

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Decentralization Leadership Core Competence Long-term 150

Terry Starbucker

MARCH 20, 2011

Because of this understanding, we often just want to hit the “go&# button and start pushing, immediately focusing on execution. It involves the essence of good leadership – in fact, it’s inspired by the very definition of the word “leader&# : Showing The Way.

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Collins Leadership Goal Definition 319

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

She had also written a book, called “ The Joy of Leadership ”. In the dream, she appeared in a boardroom full of executives in her full kitchen regalia, a wooden spoon in one hand, and the book in the other. Julia was going to show us how to prepare and serve a great leader.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 16, 2011

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well. Lead well!

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Team Metrics Leadership ROI 305

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 6, 2011

It’s a word of elegant simplicity, without the corporate-speak of “execute&# or “implement&#. Your teammates now know it. Then, “Do&#. You are showing an immediate bias towards action. Three words in, and you’ve already established yourself as a confident team player that likes to get things done.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2011

That moment when all of what you’ve put into your leadership comes to fruition. Sacks puts his finger on this absolutely perfectly: “You have to be centralized with respect to direction, decentralized with respect to execution&#. It’s the moment of truth. It’s when a teammate engages with a customer.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. Our quest needed to stay fresh, vibrant, and exuberant, and the best way to do that was through the words and actions of a new generation of leadership. As I preached many, many times to my staff in my leadership lessons, “ If you’re not going forward, you’re going backward ”.

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