Terry Starbucker

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Leadership and Social Media: Going Beyond The Keyboard

Terry Starbucker

It was a catalyst to a Social Media AND a Leadership revelation - person to person, and face to face, still mattered. It also provided a valuable leadership lesson in my role as an SVP of Operations for a cable TV company- I knew couldn’t lead through e-mail and memos. I needed to meet those I lead, face to face.

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10 Leadership Lessons from 10 Inspiring Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

There was a diverse group of businesses represented, including restaurants, social media platforms,non-profits, clothing, bio-med, farming, software, and bicycles. While there was a wide diversity in business type, there was a real commonality in the lessons these entrepreneurs shared - the “hard knocks” leadership lessons.

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Hackers and Hummingbirds: Leadership Lessons from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Terry Starbucker

The book is a fascinating deep dive into many aspects of Facebook’s meteoric success, but I was particularly interested in her perspectives on the importance of great leadership. The word “hacker” has an unfairly negative connotation from being portrayed in the media as people who break into computers.

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10 Enduring Leadership Lessons for the 21st Century (My Favorites, Volume II)

Terry Starbucker

The definition and nature of great leadership in today’s digital age is an ever-evolving thing, since business models and paradigms seem to change like the weather these days (and wow, the weather has been crazy this year!). Use Social Media To Make You Better – Embrace it, use it. A pretty good question, no doubt.

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How Talking To Yourself (& Social Media) Can Help You Change Your Life

Terry Starbucker

Recently I sat down in Portland for an interview with Greg Hartle, author of the site “ 10 Dollars and a Laptop “ It was a wide ranging discussion that hit on several topics, but the core of it dealt with change and how to make it happen, even in a down economy.

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7 Ways to Get Your Leadership (AND Your Team) Over The Hump

Terry Starbucker

With nearly 30 years of experience in my rear view mirror, I can best describe the process of successful leadership as somehow getting a giant boulder up, and then over, a steep hill – a boulder not only filled with the accumulated weight of our talents and expectations, but with those of our teammates as well.

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Eat Your Peas, And Do 10 Of These (Some Leadership Castor Oil)

Terry Starbucker

There are a lot of “peas&# out there that we have to just “eat&# , because if we don’t, our leadership will suffer. For example, do you know your company’s Social Media usage policy? Don’t let HR make those calls for you. But at least we were doing something “good for us&# , right?