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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10 New Year Resolutions For A Great Leadership Year

Terry Starbucker

“I will study up” – Take as much time as you need to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Talk about this with your team, as early in the year as possible. THEN , dive in.

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(The Return of) The Leadership Checklist: 10 Things To Do Right Now To Make It A Great Year

Terry Starbucker

Study Up - Make sure you take the time to study the details of your business or project plan for the year ahead. Synthesize Goals - Now that you’ve studied the business/project plan (see above), you need to reduce it to “bite sized” pieces so it can be effectively communicated throughout the organization.

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7 Quick Ways To Get Ahead (and Stay There) In The New Year

Terry Starbucker

Take the time to line up your priorities in relation to your goals. OK, we’ve set our goals, and infused them into our consciousness to guide our actions. What can you be doing, every day, that will help you get to where you want to be? We HAVE to put some thought into this. Don’t sit in the back of the room.

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

Terry Starbucker

Millennials can lack the perspective and discipline to commit to a lengthy task – they may begin it and then inexplicably start a new task, and then another and another, never completing a project but constantly starting new ones. The progress bar has become a part of our lives, and the Millennial generation grew up staring at it.

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Fighting The Good Startup Fight (Without a Unicorn In Sight)

Terry Starbucker

He’s looking for something a lot cooler and deeper than that – a good business, happy people, and a healthy planet – not much unlike the goals for a More Human leader. PSS: And if you’re looking for additional “more human” entrepreneurial stories, check out my other project, Built Oregon.

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(5 More Of The) 25 Timeless Leadership Lessons That Just Plain Work

Terry Starbucker

A classic example is diving into a spreadsheet or another “depersonalized” project instead of dealing with a critical teammate who is not performing and needs to be held accountable. That really is the hard stuff, and typically are the “ first things ” we need to do to keep our goals on track.