Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

It was 1987, and I had just started my first big executive job at a Cable TV company in Los Angeles. At that stage of my career, I was hungry for guidance on what it took to be a great leader. As fate would have it, I was sitting in my boss’s office one morning, and my eyes happened to wander towards a poster hanging on the wall. The title of it caught my attention: “A Short Course in Human Relations” Here’s what was on the poster: A Short Course in Human Relations.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. The most popular piece I authored last year was a column I wrote for Forbes on the art and science of what I refer to as pursuitology. As of this writing it had been read more than 260,000 times, had more than 5,000 Facebook shares, and more than 3,000 ReTweets – it clearly struck a chord with the leadership community.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

The status quo, the current way things are done in your organization, came about because it was successful. People in your organization learned how to conduct their jobs through trial and error. The things that worked were incorporated into how things are done, and the things that didn’t work were dropped. Over time, these became habits that are reinforced by daily interactions with other people in the organization.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward.” If you’re moving backward, who’s fault is it? Who is responsible? We all know the answer to this. The people whose careers seem to grow the fastest follow similar patterns of behavior. They understand competition exists, they recognize the steps they need to take to succeed, and they understand who is responsible.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Ever wonder if you’re a good leader? If so, I have a simple three question test that will help you answer the question. I call it the Sheryl Sandberg test. OK, I know that some of you are thinking “Is it really fair to compare myself to the COO of Facebook - the same woman who spoke at the World. Click headline to continue.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2012

“We live in a cynical world. A cynical world.” – Jerry Maguire. There are lot of skeptics out there, especially in the workplace, and who can blame them? Over the course of a working life, how many times have we been let down by our leaders – for promises not kept, changes that are never made, money that is never spent, or raises that never come ?

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Leadership without influence – isn’t. In fact, understanding how to leverage the influence factor can make a defining difference in your ability to drive change, build cohesive teams, and to successfully implement strategic vision. As a CEO or entrepreneur your “Influence Quotient” is the IQ you need to pay attention to, as it will be a much greater determinant of your ultimate success than your “Intelligence Quotient” could ever be.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

On this episode of The Change Agent’s Dilemma, my guest is Dr. Trina Hess of The Humor Academy, who will help us answer the question, “What’s So Funny About Change?” Tune in to hear why it is important to laugh our way through change. Learn how to introduce humor into your initiative and explore its limitations. Listen to the show here (30 minutes): Be sure to visit the radio show page to listen to past episodes and subscribe to the show.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Guest post by Micaela “Bubola” Passeri (learn more about the author at the end of this post). Home-based business professionals have challenges when it comes to keeping their work and personal space separate. In this new economic landscape, more and more people are working from home and attempting to create a balance between their personal and business lives.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

Foodies in Washington, D.C., know all about Jose Andres, the award-winning chef who popularized Spanish style tapas dining in America. Andres arrived in the United States from Spain in 1993 and opened his first restaurant, Jaleo, that year. Today, he is the CEO of Think Food Group and the mastermind behind eight restaurant concepts with locations in D.C., Los Angeles.

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Every couple of years, I like to take out this old essay, brush off the dust, and shove it back in the spotlight. Maybe this time it’s because I’ve given up eating sugar, so it’s a way to satisfy my still abating sweet tooth. Whatever the reason, I hope you get a kick out of it. This was my very first published piece. Originally titled An Airport Story , it ran in Tom Peters ‘ old newsletter, On Achieving Excellence , and in The San Jose Mercury News.

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Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Every business has a natural “pulse” of activity that is designed to match the human rhythm of the calendar. Savvy leaders know how to leverage this pulse to their best advantage by properly sequencing their analysis, interaction, thinking, discussing, deciding, and doing. For them, each day of the business week has an overarching theme, designed to maximize team effectiveness: Monday: “Absorb & Process” The first day of the business week should not be spent in mee

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. You’ll rarely encounter the words leadership and surrender used together in complementary fashion. Society has labeled surrender as a sign of leadership weakness, when in fact, it can be among the greatest of leadership strengths. Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go.

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Speaker: Aarushi Kansal, AI Leader & Author and Tony Karrer, Founder & CTO at Aggregage

Software leaders who are building applications based on Large Language Models (LLMs) often find it a challenge to achieve reliability. It’s no surprise given the non-deterministic nature of LLMs. To effectively create reliable LLM-based (often with RAG) applications, extensive testing and evaluation processes are crucial. This often ends up involving meticulous adjustments to prompts.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

When planning for change, it helps to identify factors that may hinder change. At the same time, it is important not to forget the factors that may support the change. You often find factors that help or hinder change in the same places. Consider the following examples of types of factors that might affect your change initiative both positively or negatively: Culture.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Guest Post by Ginny Clarke (learn more about the author at the end of the post). You’ve put a lot of effort into a résumé, an elevator pitch, company research and traditional networking, but you’re still coming up short in your job search or career progression. You’re understandably disappointed, but here’s the good news: it probably isn’t the tools you’ve created, but the lack of a detailed job search plan or map that is inhibiting your success.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The most interesting part of the Oscar telecast last night happened before the awards show started. E! Network red carpet host and king of all media Ryan Seacrest was in his usual position, asking the stars if they were excited and who they were wearing, when Sacha Baron Cohen arrived in a limo. You may remember Cohen best as Borat. Click headline to continue.

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Steve Farber

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

In this (and every) election year, I find myself amazed all over again at the phenomenal effort our elected and would-be elected officials put into the denial of their own mistakes. They don’t ever want to fess up to anything, it seems. 5 words you’ll never hear on the campaign trail: “Here’s How I Screwed Up.” I get it; I understand their motives.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

If you are growing your company, or are thinking about starting a company — in any industry — you need to understand your market; you need product management. If you desire to improve your company’s success, you need product management. Whether your product is a product, services, solution or other type of offering, you need product management. Whether you call it ‘product management’ or use some other name, you need the discipline to of understanding your market instilled in the company.

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N2Growth Blog

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth . I have reached the point where I can’t even bring myself to watch the Academy Awards. All I can think of is “ I’d prefer a TV awards extravaganza to honor our real heroes instead of those who imitate them.” At the risk of drawing fire from the media and rabid movie fans, I’m beginning to grow weary of propping-up social climbers as heroes.

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Change Starts Here

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Last summer, in an effort to increase my level of physical activity, I decided to walk the dog for 20 minutes four times a week. I added a recurring task to my calendar on the days when it worked out best on my calendar. The task reminder worked well for a while, until the weather started to get colder than I would normally want to take a walk. I felt content to let it slip.

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I was doing something decidedly none business yesterday (replacing my dead dryer) and the sales representative that was helping me was glued to his IPAD. Now I applaud the store for the use of technology to create a more accurate account of inventory, but to run a business you actually have to talk to your customers! The sales representative was great; he was friendly and knowledgeable and did everything he could do to help us try to find an appliance in stock to take home that day.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Last week, I had the opportunity to hear the director of DARPA, Regina Dugan, speak at a panel on leading innovation during a conference called American Competitiveness: What Works organized by General Electric and co-sponsored by Washington Post Live. In case you’re not familiar with DARPA, it’s the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. They’re the people who brought you things.

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Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Last October I was invited as a guest to participate in the Tuck School of Business 10th anniversary session of their Roundtable on Digital Strategies. This diverse group of senior IT leaders is comprised primarily of CIOs of some of the world’s largest enterprises. The roundtable members came together to discuss what was termed the present “mega trends” in technology, including the effect they are having in how their businesses currently operate and evolve.

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Lead on Purpose

FEBRUARY 4, 2012

“In a environment that is often fearful and ego-driven, she created a space where people could give up their worries and thrive.”. The word ‘conflict’ is used in so many ways that I’m conflicted as I try to make sense of it (ok, that was a ‘tongue-in-cheek for my good friend Jim Holland ). For purposes of this post, ‘conflict’ is a mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes or demands.

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QAspire

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

We live in an “instant” world. People want to do everything instantly, including understanding, comprehension and making sense of something. I remember having attended a strategy meeting where head of the department (call him boss) was explaining a new strategy that none of us had heard about before. He completed explaining and requested the audience to ask questions if any.

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Rapid BI

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Organisation or organization? The great spelling debate What is the correct spelling? There is a belief that it is spelt with an ‘s’ in the UK and in the US with a ‘z’ In fact while the US spelling is with a ‘z’ the UK preferred spelling is also with a ‘z’ and as an [.].

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Women on Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

Telling a group of men to “show up and be accountable” is new territory for most women. We have been in back of or on the side of our men for eons. Not that we have to be loud and bossy to get our way. We just have to be clear. Margaret Thatcher , portrayed by Meryl Streep in the film The Iron Lady , was a woman of depth and conviction. Strong in an arena that few women have, until now, been privy to.

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Next Level Blog

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, you know I’m a fan of Ford CEO Alan Mulally. He started in the top job at Ford about five years ago and, he has led the company to quarter after quarter of profitable growth. He’s accomplished that through any number of ways. Probably one of the biggest is by changing the. Click headline to continue.

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