Terry Starbucker

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Snap Out of It! How To Own The Terms Of Your Success

Terry Starbucker

Her latest book, “Body of Work” , gives a fresh perspective on the skills required in the new world of work for people in all work modes, from corporate to non-profit to small business. How we need to be aware of the “emotional wake” that we leave on the people around us. The post Snap Out of It!

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If We Know HOW To Be Happy, How Come We Still Can?t BE Happy?

Terry Starbucker

Perhaps what the study begs once the onion gets fully peeled is a critical question- if good relationships are critical to happiness, isn’t it really the relationship skills themselves that hold the key, and thus we as a society should be paying much more attention to this in our children’s formidable learning years?

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Sage Advice For The First-Time Leader

Terry Starbucker

How we interact with them, listen to them, teach them, coach them, inspire them, hire them and perhaps even fire them is a whole set of skills that can only be honed and perfected by the wisdom gained from experience. A job title doesn’t mean much unless you learn how to build and channel influence. Listen more than talk.

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What They Don’t Teach You in Business School: The Commencement Speech I Wish I’d Heard 30 Years Ago

Terry Starbucker

How we interact with them, listen to them, teach them, coach them, inspire them, hire them and perhaps even fire them is a whole set of skills that can only be honed and perfected by the wisdom gained from experience. A job title doesn’t mean much unless you learn how to build and channel influence.

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10 Ways Champion Olympic Gymnasts Inspire Us To Be Better Leaders

Terry Starbucker

Let’s dig a little deeper… 1) Mastery at the craft – Malcolm Gladwell’s now-famous assertion (in his book “ Outliers” ) about needing 10,000 hours of practice to achieve mastery in any given skill is vividly on display when you watch gymnasts execute extremely difficult maneuvers with seeming ease.

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Pat, I’d Like To Buy A Vowel: 3 Ways To Solve Your Leadership Puzzle

Terry Starbucker

Imagine the quest for leadership success as an episode of Wheel of Fortune – there’s a puzzle put in front of you, with just a couple of clues on how to solve it. You work your way though a lot of it on your own, but then you get stuck. You can’t do it by yourself any longer – you have to get some help.

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10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them

Terry Starbucker

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full 10 Leadership Battles – And How To Win Every One of Them by Starbucker on November 1, 2009 In our quest to become great leaders we take on a constant stream of internal battles. That school is now closed.