Terry Starbucker

JULY 16, 2017

It’s a personal memoir that traces the discovery and development of my More Human Leadership philosophy, a practice guided by 8 core principles. Sure, I would keep traveling, and yes, I would keep connecting, but I knew the numbers (and the demands of the business) were working against me.

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Miles Anthony Smith

JUNE 5, 2018

45 Career Advice Experts Share Their Blueprint for Career Success (Plus Leaderboard)​ Does your career seem to be a struggle at times? It’s why I wrote my book Why Career Advice Sucks™ … to share the stories of my own career success and failures and help you grow your career more quickly.

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QAspire

JULY 1, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Taking a “Project View&# of Improvement and Change Initiatives Yesterday, over a cup of coffee, my friend asked me about my first book and what was my approach towards writing it. I said that I took “project approach&#. Now, that’s a goal - a project for you.

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Skip Prichard

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Reprinted with permission from the book, Outward Bound Lessons to Live a Life of Leadership by Mark Brown, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. I observed this power of mission-driven servant leadership multiple times during my career. took over leadership from their fathers. This is an excerpt. Serving Others.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Perhaps this was not the best initial career move. He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. But about 30 minutes later, he walked into my office and apologized.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 6, 2021

In my lifetime and certainly in the lifetime of my grandmother, the career opportunities available to women have dramatically expanded. We will agree that now being a pilot, doctor, president, soldier, astronaut, policewoman, scientist is all available for women as valid and viable career choices. This was not always so. What happened?

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QAspire

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Top 10 Project Management Mistakes You Should Avoid I was recently studying the anatomy of failed/troubled projects and following came out as a learning. Starting project without 102% clarity (100% clarity on scope/technology and 2% knowledge of how you can add value).

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HR Digest

DECEMBER 2, 2023

Career Development and Advancement Careerbuilder and Silkroad Technology found 1 in 10 respondents had previously left a company because of a poor onboarding experience. A LinkedIn Workplace Learning Report from 2018 stated that 94 percent of employees would remain at a company that invested in their career development.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 19, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Leadership and Maintaining a Positive Outlook Conversations are at the core of good leadership and how/what a leader communicates reveals the personality of the leader. A few years back, I was facilitating a discussion between the project leaders. Effective leaders focus on the end.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 31, 2015

Stay tuned for more news and tidbits about this book project. I’d been at my leadership role for 6 years. I’d traveled a lot a miles and drank a lot of bad coffee. Going ‘Jim Collins’ By the time my travels took me back to Billings, a couple of months later, I knew what I had to do.

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Mills Scofield

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Perhaps this was not the best initial career move. He never yelled at me again (though he did keep yelling at the rest of the team), and became one of three manager-mentors that shaped my career at Bell Labs and AT&T — and taught me to manage others and myself. But about 30 minutes later, he walked into my office and apologized.

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Terry Starbucker

JULY 23, 2018

Leadership is one of my life’s great passions – and I’m pleased to share with you my journey (in three parts in 3 weeks) to what I consider to be the heart of great More Human leadership – the success trifecta. Along the way I learned SO many things about leadership, because I had the honor of actually DOING it.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Let them lead in your absence: Your top employees would be honored to “step in” so that you can travel or go on a vacation. Learning how other parts of the company work can also build their leadership agility. Promote them: If you have career ladders in your company, it might be time to promote those you value.

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QAspire

JANUARY 16, 2011

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Gandhi, Leadership And A Few Lessons On Simplicity I have been a great admirer of Mahatma Gandhi - one of the greatest leaders India has ever produced. I recently visited Sabarmati Ashram , one of the residences of Gandhi, where we got a glimpse into Gandhi’s life as a national leader.

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Michael Lee Stallard

JUNE 9, 2010

Michael Lee Stallard Insights on Leadership and Employee Engagement Home About Hire to Speak Press Kit June Leadership Carnival Published by Michael Lee Stallard on June 9, 2010 12:33 pm under Uncategorized This month’s Leadership Carnival is hosted by Chris Young at MaximizingPossibility.com. But don’t despair.

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Women on Business

JULY 18, 2012

The corporate culture, or lack of culture is taking it’s toll on you as you can feel the stirrings of wanting more, going deeper into experiencing the business world, but not boxed in by the limitations that your job or career ask of you. You feel uneasy going to work, and lack enthusiasm.

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Sales Wolf Blog

JUNE 6, 2010

  Dan McCarthy  presents  A View from Inside the Leadership Pipeline  posted at  Great Leadership  where he provides a summary of research from CCL and his recommendations on how to manage high potentials.   Without further delay, let's get to it! . 

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

Perhaps you’re writing a job ad for what your company calls a project manager. But many industries employ project managers. Someone searching for a position as an IT project manager would not be a good fit for a litigation support project manager. For example, perhaps your open sales position requires travel.

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QAspire

AUGUST 31, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Great Leadership: Beware of These Nine I’s I wrote earlier about Nine I’s and Great Leadership. Ineffective : Leadership delivers performance. Tip : For a better understanding and correlation, read this post along with my earlier post Nine I’s and Great Leadership.

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Rich Gee Group

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Is Your Career A Rollercoaster Or Are You Driving It? Are you driving your career? What’s Killing Your Career? And this employee/object will remain at rest (no movement – no raises, no promotions, no new projects, no GROWTH) until “a sum of physical forces” are acted upon it. Can Change Your Career. Guaranteed.

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The Practical Leader

MAY 25, 2022

Despite working 50 hours and more per week (with an increasing amount of weekend work to “catch up”), it felt like his career wasn’t going anywhere. Down the hall, Brian’s boss was meeting with the HR director to review staffing for new roles and projects emerging from the recent organizational restructuring.

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ExactHire - Leadership

APRIL 23, 2021

Perhaps you’re writing a job ad for what your company calls a project manager. But many industries employ project managers. Someone searching for a position as an IT project manager would not be a good fit for a litigation support project manager. For example, perhaps your open sales position requires travel.

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In the CEO Afterlife

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

My career as a CEO of a Fortune 500 company had come to an end with the sale of the company. That career shift resulted in plenty of travel and lonely nights in hotel rooms. That career shift resulted in plenty of travel and lonely nights in hotel rooms. That was not the case. I thought I could.

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Great Leadership By Dan

JANUARY 29, 2008

Also, be sure to find out if anything about their job situation is frustrating them, such as too much travel, difficult colleagues, or not enough challenge from day to day. Help them to develop by shaping their careers and responsibilities in the direction they’d like to go. A high-profile special project assignment.

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QAspire

JANUARY 17, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Book Review: The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Businesses today are plagued by people who are "installed" in leadership positions just because of their prior performance as a "worker" I have seen some excellent technical brains failing miserably as project leaders.

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QAspire

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Teaching, Improvement and Change: A Few Parallels 12 years back, I started my career as a tutor who taught Oracle and PL/SQL to students belonging to different age groups. Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going? with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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Lead Change Blog

JUNE 16, 2015

Career Launch. I had worked with the founder Robert Green on a project and I thought it would be fun to join him and his wife Annabelle in their new company (Robelle = Robert + Annabelle). Career Risk. Here are a few examples of times when I went into new adventures inexperienced. No one told me that startups were risky.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

APRIL 23, 2019

I started working at The Center for Leadership Studies (CLS) in June of 1983, and I was so very honored to do so! We had a packaged program ( The Essentials of Situational Leadership ® ) that I was responsible for selling and, if need be, facilitating. PI was a custom house that lived project to project for the better part of 25 years.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer #QUALITYtweet at Reflection Leadership (Thanks to Tom Glover) Tom Glover is a “Leadership Friend” who hosts Reflection Leadership Blog. I came to know Tom via our common leadership community over at Twitter. I sent him a copy of #QUALITYtweet for review a few months back.

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QAspire

AUGUST 24, 2010

Note: My book ‘ #QUALITYtweet – 140 bite-sized ideas to deliver quality in every project ’ explores the people, process and leadership aspects to build a constantly improving organization culture. Bonus: QAspire Blog was recently featured on Community of Program and Project Managers (PPM Community). Check out the feature.

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QAspire

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Invisible Cost of “Toxic” Leadership Many organizations today are plagued by so-called leaders who don’t carry a leadership mindset. Their title may read “Project Leader” and they may be managing a few people, but that does not make them real leaders.

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Eric Jacobson

JULY 30, 2023

These leaders project it faithfully out onto the world. Second, it can attract fellow travelers. And if you are not necessarily part of a start-up and early in your career, think hard about your own life purpose and use it as a filter to make important life decisions including where you might want to work.

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QAspire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

The book carries some very interesting anecdotes from Chris’ travel in different countries. He has been to more than 125 countries so far. Have a GREAT week ahead! Don’t Kill It! Working and Walking – Where Are You Going? with Phil Gerbyshak Management Craft Nicholas Bate NOOP.NL

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QAspire

AUGUST 2, 2010

Robin’s Blog Seth s Blog Steve Yastrow’s blog - new article Talking Story with Say Leadership Coaching TerryStarbucker.com The Tom Peters Weblog Utpal Writes QAspire Blog: Practical Insights on Quality, Management, Leadership and Improvement is powered by WordPress WordPress Themes Don’t Kill It!

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QAspire

JANUARY 2, 2011

“Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us to renew our focus on developing a culture of excellence, great leadership, adopting best practices, making them work in our context, continual improvement and superior service to our customers/peers. Very truely said - “Striving for excellence” should be a call to action for us.

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QAspire

JULY 4, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Final Part: 7 Things Managers & Leaders Should Never Do I wrote earlier about “ 11 Things Project Managers & Leaders Should Never Do ” and then continued the chain of thoughts with another post titled “ 7 (More) Things Project Managers & Leaders Should Never Do.

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QAspire

AUGUST 26, 2010

Home Go to QAspire.com Guest Posts Disclaimer Training Middle Managers On People Management Basics Here is a simple idea: Whenever you have a new manager (project manager/departmental leader) joining in your organization, put him/her through a simple training program on how to manage people. Humility is the most important leadership trait.

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