Terry Starbucker

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

And who should be the one sorting it all out for an organization and/or team pushing for greatness? Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. YOU, the leader. . our means). Every time.

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Chameleons With A Heart: A Portrait Of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Here were the 3 core styles they noted: 1) “Sports Coaches” – energetic, organized, goal setter, teacher, no-nonsense & tough, strictly professional. Setting challenging goals in the context of a positive culture of accountability. Backing off and letting them take the credit.

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The 9 Telltale Signs Of A Leadership Vacuum

Terry Starbucker

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. It’s an easy strategy to implement, but 99 times out of 100 it will fail with disastrous consequences (and the other 1 time it was just plain luck).

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How Great Leaders Simplify Decision-Making (And Just Get Stuff Done)

Terry Starbucker

Over my career I figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers. action devises that simplify their systems and foster a restless organizational stance by clarifying which numbers really count or arbitrarily limiting the length of the goal list”.

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United We Stand: The Best Path to Extraordinary

Terry Starbucker

That is, the goals of the enterprise, and the processes and measurements that are used to get to those goals. And the interesting thing is, it’s not really a matter of getting the words right at all levels of the organization - there are many different ways of saying the same thing. To get to extraordinary.

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Decide, and DO: The 4 Secrets to A Bias Towards Action

Terry Starbucker

I also figured out that too much complexity in an organization, and too much data, can hamper the doers – Tom Peters also noted this in “In Search of Excellence” The successful companies were able to streamline to the point where they create. And that’s the fourth secret: organizational and structural simplicity.

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10 New Year Resolutions For A Great Leadership Year

Terry Starbucker

“I will synthesize our goals to a memorable mantra” – Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), the challenge will be to reduce it to “bite sized” pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization – just like a mantra- that can be memorized and repeated.