Terry Starbucker

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Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Terry Starbucker

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. This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e.

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How I Discovered The Values That Led Me To Leadership Success

Terry Starbucker

One of them is “Establish A Mantra Of Key Values” A few words or a short list of bullet points can’t tell you how important that was for me in becoming a successful leader, so I wanted to share with you my personal story of how I discovered, and then fully absorbed, the values that guided me towards the right path.

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Failure, or Progress?: Making Mountains into Milestones

Terry Starbucker

Adam is currently right in the middle of his leadership journey, overseeing a large staff at a very successful retail operation. Pressing toward the goal that is the peak, progress is initially quick, but the law of diminishing returns enters here. The journey up a mountain begins on familiar, comfortable terrain.

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15 Steps To Great Leadership (The More Human Way)

Terry Starbucker

We had just finished a review of one of our operating centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After all, this was a telecommunications and cable TV operation, and they were used to observing a far different situation. But there, along that linear path, was the framework, path, and process for leadership success. “How did you do this?

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The Keys To Managing Millennials, Part 2: The Progress Bar Effect

Terry Starbucker

As I complete my monthly, quarterly and yearly strategic planning for my retail operations, I break down each larger strategy to tactics and then actions. Following the completion of each step, I celebrate the success of the individual who accomplished it, and then introduce a new goal. 2) Create the Progress Bar Effect.

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Reach For Greatness: The 12 Steps To The Leadership Summit

Terry Starbucker

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. But there’s one more step that REALLY ties this all together….

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The 3 Most Reliable Indicators Of A Company’s Health – And Of Its Heart

Terry Starbucker

As more human leaders, we instinctively know that there’s a strong correlation between a caring, connected and happy team and successful financial performance, but we also know that finding a way to measure and confirm that correlation is an essential part of sustaining (and even tightening) it over the long haul. ” button.

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