It's Not About the Coffee
Lessons on Putting People First from a Life at Starbucks
by Howard Behar
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appears in Best Leadership Books, Management, and Leadership.
During his many years as a senior executive at Starbucks, Howard Behar helped establish the Starbucks culture, which stresses people over profits. He coached hundreds of leaders at every level and helped the company grow into a worldrenowned brand. Now he reveals the ten principles that guided his leadershipand not one of them is about coffee. Be...
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“A brisk, anecdote-driven collection of management lessons presented as brief chapters and stories. Its most useful parts are short, practical reminders about mentoring, building trust, and coaching teams—phrases you can recall before meetings. The main limitation is a heavy reliance on anecdotes and secondhand recollection rather than step-by-step recipes or rigorous analysis; readers wanting granular playbooks or data will find it thin. Best approached as a promptbook to revisit instead of a how-to manual to follow cover-to-cover.”
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