Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period. Low-carbon leadership isn’t just confined to the coasts.

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CO2

JUNE 29, 2010

We believe the strength of any team is in the followers and there can be no leaders without followers, but the vast majority of research to date has focused on the leadership side of this equation. It is worth keeping in mind that some jobs have clear leadership requirements; virtually all jobs have followership requirements.

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Terry Starbucker

JUNE 6, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full The Mid-Year Leadership Check-Up: 10 Ways To Stay On The Path To Success by Starbucker on June 6, 2010 With summer approaching it’s time for a mid-year leadership “Check-Up&#. Popularity: 2% [ ?

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 6, 2014

In May of 2005, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, cofounder Jerry Yang, corporate development executive Toby Coppel, and I — I was then chief financial officer of the Silicon Valley internet company — went on what would turn out to be a fateful trip to China. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2016

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. Did Yahoo’s leadership really miss the importance of smartphones?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

When Mark Hurd took over as CEO in 2005, he took that picture down, and noticeably didn’t put his own up on the wall. As one senior manager noted, “he knew the operations and its numbers better than many business unit heads.” People found that to be very tacky.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 15, 2012

By definition, an insurgency consists of a small and less-powerful force seeking to overturn the leadership of a much larger and more powerful institution. In 2011, Netflix announced it would split into two businesses, then retreated after only three weeks. This collaborative approach was central to his leadership of the U.S.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 10, 2010

The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough by Starbucker on October 10, 2010 Jack Welch at the World Business Forum, October 5 2010 (Photo by dov.com) Charisma – “ a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty ” (Webster Dictionary) You notice them the minute they enter a room. That aura, that confidence, that vibe.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Home About Me About This Blog Starbucker’s Amazon Store TerryStarbucker.com Ramblings From a Glass Half Full Leaders Can Be Human Too: In Praise of Touchy-Feely by Starbucker on February 14, 2010 My first executive leadership opportunity came very early for me – at age 27. Leadership is fundamentally a relationship with followers.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Brian Fitzpatrick joined Google as a senior software engineer in 2005, shortly after the company’s IPO. Their crowning achievement was a service launched in 2011 called Google Takeout, a unified site for exporting user data from multiple services like Gmail and Google Photos.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Also, while China’s outward-bound foreign direct investment (FDI) has grown from an annual average of below $3 billion before 2005 to more than $60 billion in 2010 and 2011, only one third of Chinese companies have seen international revenue meet expectations, according to Accenture. Rebrand from the inside out. An HBR Insight Center.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 2, 2010

We’ve each taken on the topic of influence in leadership and are exchanging blog posts. For years, I operated with the belief that all I had to do was come up with the most brilliantly creative and strategically sound solution. Leadership is as much about learning as it is about leading – and specifically learning other perspectives.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2013

Consider the story of the Business Transformation Agency of the Department of Defense, which was founded in 2005 under Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and "disestablished" in 2011 by Defense Secretary Gates. Under Rossotti's guidance, the IRS reorganized from a geographic structure to four new customer-oriented operating divisions.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 16, 2010

How these two goals are connected by the company’s leadership is critical to building operational greatness – an organization that is working at high efficiency, with great enthusiasm and ever increasing productivity. Cosell note his passing.

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Terry Starbucker

OCTOBER 24, 2010

Three years later, it was clear that we had chosen our pillars well, for we had made substantial improvements in nearly every measurable aspect of our operations, and, most importantly, drove excellent financial results that exceeded expectations. What were these magical tenets? Something way out of the box? Revolutionary? Popularity: 2% [

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 16, 2015

To move from a reactive posture to a proactive leadership position in driving health care reform, large employers have a lever at their fingertips that they have not often deployed in procuring health care: their purchasing power. Providers and health plans are service suppliers paid by employers. Insight Center. Sponsored by Medtronic.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 1, 2010

He had just spent several days reviewing our business operations, and after absorbing our successes and industry-leading metrics, he couldn’t figure it out on his own. So he was compelled to ask me that question, perhaps hoping I would reply with some magic formula that he could take back home with him. Just a lot of hard work.

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Terry Starbucker

MARCH 15, 2010

More specifically, the leadership training. Plus, taking these critical cogs in the wheel out of circulation for even a few days can certainly be a burden on the operation. Taking the top management once every year to a training program and then hoping for the best does not qualify as leadership development for me. takes place!

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Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

We recently hired an outside firm at my company to take a look at some of our operations, and sure enough, they looked at some rocks we hadn’t looked under for several years – and found some things that we could change to make us better. It’s been a pleasure working with/for you all of these years. Cosell note his passing.

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Terry Starbucker

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Apparently he didn’t care and the next thing you know I was indeed running the operations of that company. Out of the blue, I got a call from an executive recruiter who was looking for a particular kind of accountant to “run” a service company with over 425,000 customers. Cosell note his passing.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 24, 2011

Plus, as a result of a lack of cross-organizational coordination and cooperation, Nokia wasn’t able to improve its proprietary operating system, Symbian, which would have allowed it to support a more sophisticated smartphone. Here are a few of this year’s headline makers and the lessons that can be learned from each of them.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 27, 2018

They operate as lean organizations, using cloud and internet-based infrastructure, and launch and distribute products more quickly than did firms that competed with factories, warehouses, inventories, and suppliers. retains its leadership in technological progress.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2017

Primary care delivery faces additional challenges for scaling because it operates on thin margins, often is not highly valued by patients, and has difficulty attracting trained providers. North Star primarily serves truck drivers and sex workers, operating in the afternoons and evenings to fit its clients’ schedules.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

After studying and working with hundreds of companies in free fall, we’ve identified concrete steps that leadership teams can take to engineer successful turnarounds and transformations. Since Knudstorp took over, Lego’s revenues have increased by 400%, and its operating profit margin has increased from -21% to 34%.

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Terry Starbucker

JANUARY 10, 2010

I visit my company’s field operations quite often, and I like to talk personally with as many folks as I can. The karma comes back to me when I get e-mails or letters about how just showing up, and taking the time to chat, made a difference in how they felt about their jobs. Ready to celebrate! Does that makes sense?

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