Terry Starbucker

MAY 29, 2011

(From www.majordickwinters.com). “I know plenty of heroes, but I am certainly not one&# – Major Dick Winters , commander, Easy Company, 101st Airborne division, World War II. These words are from a man who led his “Band of Brothers&# from the D-Day landings to the German Surrender, bravely and selflessly. He was often out-manned in the battlefield, but still prevailed with his deft strategies and coolness under fire (in fact, his successful assault on German guns on Utah beach,

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 3, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. With all the attention and emphasis given to leadership, I have a few questions for you: Why is it that so many people refer to themselves as leaders, but truly great leaders are so few in number? How do you measure great leadership? And finally, is there a common thread that distinguishes those viewed as great leaders from the masses of those who hold leadership positions?

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Change Starts Here

MAY 10, 2011

Although every organizational change initiative is different, all change agents face similar challenges. It doesn’t seem to matter how much experience you have, or what type of initiative you are implementing; when you start changing a system, there are tough decisions and actions you must take to see it through. And, while you can get better and more comfortable at facing these challenges, even experienced change agents struggle with them to some extent, because they never really go away

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Next Level Blog

MAY 16, 2011

One of the highest compliments that can be paid in our house is that someone GSD’s. While we have a somewhat colorful definition of what GSD means, the polite way to explain it is that it stands for. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Steve Farber

MAY 7, 2011

My earlier, cryptic announcement about the diminishing availability of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge perked a little excitement among some folks and caused some consternation with others. I take both reactions as a compliment–so, thank you to all. Leap and Edge aren’t going away, though–not by a long shot. I’m over-the-moon to announce that this October will mark the publication of The Radical Leap Re-Energized.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 22, 2011

You’ve worked hard to build the right team. You’ve put in a lot of hours process-building, training, goal-setting, and motivating. But the wheels still aren’t turning. Productivity is lagging. Something’s wrong. There’s an undercurrent of dissatisfaction that is palpable. So you try pushing harder – and it only gets worse.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 19, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. “ Managing Up &# is a great catch phrase and an interesting concept – it’s also a practice that can get you in deep trouble rather quickly if misunderstood or misapplied. Many people would say the purpose of managing-up is to have the by-product of your efforts enhance the work of those you report to.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 5, 2011

As a special thank you to subscribers and fans, I am giving away one month of coaching to one lucky winner. That’s a $500 prize! All you have to do is enter your information below by May 15, 2011 to be entered to win. No purchase necessary. The package includes three 45-minute coaching sessions via phone (or Skype for those outside of the US).

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Next Level Blog

MAY 13, 2011

Earlier this week I gave a speech to a couple of hundred managers about how to stay on track with delegation. As part of the talk, I introduced a step by step approach to effective and worry free. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Steve Farber

MAY 3, 2011

This week I’ll be announcing a new chapter in the lives of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge. You may have already noticed that these–my first two books–are becoming harder to find in both brick-and-mortar and on-line stores. Well…there’s a good reason for that. I’ll explain in a few days, but for now, suffice it to say that these babies are about to become collectors’ items.

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Women on Business

MAY 23, 2011

Inc. Magazine recently ran a piece titled, “10 Tips on How to Research Your Competition.&# If Tweets, Likes and LinkedIn Shares are any indication, this piece by Darren Dahl, has generated quite an online buzz. Must be a compelling topic… The interest and importance of researching your competition is a no-brainer. Obviously it’s important, no matter what industry you’re in, what you’re selling or who you’re selling to.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 8, 2011

Building a great team around you is one of those leadership skills that can make or break you. It’s one thing to get all the “right people on the bus&# (to steal a Jim Collins phrase), but it’s quite another to get the team to create an unstoppable collective force that can achieve greatness. Unfortunately, sometimes it’s just a bus going to nowhere.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 5, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. Are you shooting yourself in the foot with your pricing strategy? How much is your time worth? What does your pricing say about your personal or corporate brand? Do you have a pricing strategy, or do you set your prices by some ethereal or arbitrary method? Even though I believe issues surrounding pricing decisions are root level drivers to a successful business strategy, I never cease to be amazed at how many corporations and professionals seem

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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

MAY 31, 2011

The oft-quoted 70% failure rate of organizational change initiatives bothers me. Not in the sense of “Oh my gosh change is so hard,&# but it just seems too black-and-white for reality. Some even exploit the statistic to imply that change is near impossible (without spending big bucks on consulting fees). I’m not saying the statistic is wrong – just that you should understand it so you are not misled.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 10, 2011

A long-time friend and colleague, Steve Wexler, who is great at visualization took my Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data and produced a really need interactive visualization via Tableau. You can find it here: Interactive Version: Startup CTO Salary and Equity Data (US) Explanation: CTO compensation and equity at venture-backed companies Probably the best thing for someone to do is to go to the Interactive Version and look things up using their specific situation.

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Lead on Purpose

MAY 19, 2011

One of the most important keys to leading a team is creating an environment of trust. Merriam-Webster defines trust as an “assured reliance on the character, ability, strength or truth of someone or something.” To work successfully as a team, the leader must create a culture where people can rely on the strength and abilities of those they work with and believe in their leader’s direction and vision.

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The Recovering Engineer

MAY 7, 2011

Many leaders struggle with finding ways to motivate people to higher level performance. I have already written that you cannot motivate another person. So, let’s set aside the idea that the leader provides the motivation and move on to the idea that a leader can learn to identify the things that do motivate the people on his or her team. In previous posts, I wrote about Three Clues You Can Use to Find What Motivates Another Person and A Simple Model for Understanding What Drives Behavior.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 25, 2011

There’s nothing more gut wrenching for a leader than screwing up, but there’s something far worse out there – the consequences of screwing up, if it isn’t handled it the right way. What do I mean by that? A situation where we just can’t bring ourselves to concede that a mistake was made in the first place, which leads to attempts to work around it, ignore it, or plow right ahead.

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N2Growth Blog

MAY 21, 2011

By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth. I just finished reading a post by Jennifer Miller that pointed out the benefits of MBWA (Management By Walking Around – classic Tom Peters) where Jennifer provided 8 valuable tips for making walking around more productive. MBWA is both a practical and productive use of time for a CEO. I respect Jennifer’s work and find no flaw whatsoever in her encouragement to CEOs to spend more time with their employees and directors.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 17, 2011

Today on The Change Agent’s Dilemma, I interviewed Garrett Gitchell, founder of Vision to Work, Inc. , whose unique approach to change management starts with the end state. In this episode, Garrett shares the details of his approach to change that works from the end state back. In an interesting twist, he explains why change management is not about overcoming resistance.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts. So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction.

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Women on Business

MAY 31, 2011

In our recent GUTSY WOMEN LEADERS retreat I showed a video of Isabel Allende when she was a presenter at a TED conference. She is one of my favorite authors; her novels are filled with the depth of what life is all about; love, sorrow, misunderstandings, and the courage to change. She mentions a conversation she had with her daughter who stated emphatically that feminism is old, stale, and no longer valid.

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Steve Farber

MAY 19, 2011

At the recent SobCon event in Chicago, I gave a talk to my fellow bloggers about my perspective on what it means to have a body of work and how to go about developing and communicating it. (For the background on this, see my previous post ). I suggested that there are four critical steps: Cultivate a Burning Desire to Excel in Your Field, Hone Your Chops, Develop Your Own Point of View, and Build Your Body of Work.

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Terry Starbucker

MAY 11, 2011

It’s there. Unless you destroy it. By how you lead. In virtually every workplace, among those who serve the customers, or make the widgets, or support those who do either of these things, is a strong desire to do their jobs to the best of their abilities. I call it the “Pride Principle&#. Humans have a propensity to take satisfaction from doing something well.

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Next Level Blog

MAY 11, 2011

Wow, I had no idea what kind of nerve I was striking when I wrote a post last week on taming your inner smart aleck. Lots of leader readers left fantastic mea culpa comments that shared stories of. Please click the headline to read the whole story.

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Change Starts Here

MAY 3, 2011

Over the weekend, I changed the color of the kids’ bathroom. This implies that I simply painted, but of course, “painting&# requires much more than rolling paint on the wall. In fact, that’s the easiest part; changing the color of a room requires many more steps. I like to compare organizational change to the other things we change in our lives.

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SoCal CTO

MAY 17, 2011

I was just talking with someone who's new to Los Angeles and wanting to connect into the Los Angeles Startup Community. I told them that I had recently seen several posts/articles talking about how vibrant the community has become. As is usual, I couldn't remember where I had seen those posts. So, I promised I would create this post to help point them in the right direction.

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Women on Business

MAY 22, 2011

If you sell something to your community of clients, and they receive some measure of enjoyment, appreciation, usage, or some other measure of value out of your product or service, then you’re fulfilling the role your company exists to play. Entrepreneurs exist to create value for the economy: this is the primary benefit they offer. Without a special group of someones bringing good ideas to market, we would have none of the amenities and treats we take for granted today, like ice cream, clo

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