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What Your Organization Really Needs from You: Influence and Impact

Leading Blog

In my new book, Influence and Impact: Discover and Excel at What Your Organization Needs From You The Most , written with George Bradt, we provide the tools every leader needs to grow and develop into the leader that others want to follow.

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Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

Leading Blog

In 2005, he brought his experience and insights into the performance of engineered systems to McKinsey and Company, where he worked as a consultant and member of the Operations Practice. There, he mastered the technical aspect of organizational transformation and process improvement, as well as the cultural side of transformation.

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Ideal Values Versus Current Values

LDRLB

In many ways they are the operating system of the organization…But unfortunately they often have little in common with the high minded the words on the paper.” I like that operating system analogy and totally agree with Greg that many organizations have a large disparity between perceived and actual values. 2005, Fall).

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The Secret Life Of Terry Starbucker

Terry Starbucker

Starbucker started out as no more than a screen name on a Blogger page back on December 25, 2005 (named after a certain brand of coffee). That somebody else kept a pretty busy schedule of his own, working for a fine little cable company called Bresnan Communications in White Plains, New York, as Senior Vice President of Operations.

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My 10 Favorite (and Most Effective) Leadership Quotes

Terry Starbucker

I’ve been delivering them on a regular basis for the past 8 years in my (soon-to-be) former position as an SVP of Operations, and throughout that time I have sprinkled a few famous quotes here and there, to really bring home the point I was trying to make. The kind that is designed to “jazz up&# and inspire the team.

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Can Charisma Be Taught? The 90% Theory And Why That Can Be Enough

Terry Starbucker

I thing that we need to understand accurately what makes a person have charisma before developing it and this is where many people struggle, which is why they think charisma is something you’re born with. We need a good operational definition of charisma. Carlos Saldivia October 11, 2010 at 12:35 pm ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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The Real Job Of Leadership

Terry Starbucker

Because it’s obviously important to do this, it often can overwhelm our brains and put us in a position where we operate as if our “job&# is: Get Stuff Done But is that really a leader’s job? I don’t believe so. Rather, it’s a byproduct of the real job of a leader.