Terry Starbucker

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How Leaders Can Quickly Take A Team From Worst To First

Terry Starbucker

It’s September, and for sports fans that means the NFL season is starting, and the Major League Baseball pennant races are heating up as they head to the postseason.

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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. “My boy, there are two kinds of people in the business world, doers and thinkers. Which one will you be?”. His overriding trait was impatience and dislike about extended debate and discussion about big decisions.

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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. 2) “Drivers/Directors” – hands on, ambitious, focused, firm, hard-working, order-giver, rough around edges.

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Taking The Child In The Leader Out To Play

Terry Starbucker

So, at 5, I already was trying to imitate my parents, “playing house”, imagining myself behind the wheel of my Hot Wheels sports car, putting on one of my dad’s ties, and even sampling a couple of spirits from the liquor cabinet (that didn’t work out too well!).

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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 Joys Of Blocking and Tackling (and Running To Daylight)

Terry Starbucker

I was born in Wisconsin, and my first real sports memories were of the Green Bay Packers, and their championship years in the 60s with Lombardi as the head coach. Fixing what’s broke. Not fixing what isn’t broke. Blocking and Tackling. A football phrase that makes me think of Vince Lombardi.

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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?