Terry Starbucker

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

Terry Starbucker

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. (I’ve 3) Dream and Goal set realistically in a 12-24 month window, and, this is very important: If you hit them, raise the bar quickly.

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The Most Important Question Every Leader Must Answer – Before It Is Asked

Terry Starbucker

It’s really a matter of giving meaning to the work that each person does, which leads to happier, more motivated, and more productive teammates. When we first started we more or less just “put it out there”, explaining the mechanics of the metric, the way it was compiled and scored, and setting a company goal.

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9 Awesome Things You Can Learn From Drinking Coffee With Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

Innovation (with Purpose) - Steve Jobs has to be smiling from above these days, because just about everyone I speak to wants their product to change the world (or at least make someone’s life better). Also, this naivete extends to the service and/or product idea itself (i.e.

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Chameleons With A Heart: A Portrait Of More Human Leadership

Terry Starbucker

They need to be able to develop both the human side and product side of a business – if you have just one or the other, you greatly limit yourself and the success of your business.” Setting challenging goals in the context of a positive culture of accountability. “Nowadays, leaders need to wear many hats.

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The Best Motivational Tool We Love to Hate

Terry Starbucker

The business world has lots of deadlines, and for the leader, the biggest challenge is how to choreograph them in a way that maximizes productivity. If the deadline has an overly aggressive goal and the timing is too “tight”, you could create a failure and morale killer that wasn’t necessary.

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15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

I jotted down a lot of notes during the day, and I wanted to share what I thought were the 15 best nuggets of wisdom from the event: “Pay attention (to everything)” – Eric Winquist , CEO of Jama Software , who is delivering enterprise-grade software solutions to product development challenges.

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7 Little Words, One Big Leadership Manifesto

Terry Starbucker

You add “It&#. “It&# is the goal, the focus, the objective. It’s that simple – happy teammates are productive and successful teammates. This is the journey to achieving the goal – the other “it&#. No need to waste time or energy spelling “it&# out – you can move on.