Terry Starbucker

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

Terry Starbucker

At the time Cooke was a very successful serial entrepreneur, in the media and sports arenas. 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”. Which one will you be?”.

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15 Nuggets of Wisdom From 15 Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

“Bring together complimentary ideas and a common goal” - Klaus Frueh , President of TomegaVax, who is working on a vaccine for the HIV virus.

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The 3 Secrets To Fantastic Work

Terry Starbucker

I see “fun” when the passion and the cause are making a difference – when a group of people are continually hitting targets and raising bars – in other words, to use a sports analogy, they are “winning” And who doesn’t enjoy being a winner?

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(More of The) 25 Timeless Leadership Lessons That Just Plain Work: Lessons 6-10

Terry Starbucker

I see “fun” when the passion and the cause are making a difference – when a group of people are continually hitting targets and raising bars – in other words, to use a sports analogy, they are “winning”. Apply these secrets yourself, and get your team across the goal line to the fun zone. Do the Unexpected.

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The Most Useless Word in the English Language (And Why You Should.

Terry Starbucker

Perhaps we say “can’t&# , not because we feel we legitimately can’t do it, but we’re scared that we won’t actually achieve our goals, and we’ll fail. Aschwin Wesselius May 20, 2010 at 8:54 am It’s not the goal, it’s the way to it. So if can is the goal, the way to it is more important than actually achieving it.