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Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz, aiming to reassure employees about turmoil in the financial markets, said the situation won’t affect the company’s growth plans. 
  
 “We will positively manage through today’s challenging environment just as we have positively navigated through challenging moments in the past,” Schultz said in a memo to workers on Monday. 
  
 The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index plunged more than 5 percent on Monday morning, following declines overseas. But the market began to rebound over the course of the day, pulling back from the brink of the S&P 500’s first correction in almost four years. Starbucks shares tumbled as much as 20 percent before recovering. The stock was down 0.8 percent to $52.40 as of 1:16 p.m. in New York. 
  
 “Today’s financial market volatility, combined with great political uncertainty both at home and abroad, will undoubtedly have an effect on consumer confidence and perhaps even our customers’ attitudes and behavior,” Schultz said in the memo. “Our customers are likely to experience an increased level of anxiety and concern. Please recognize this and -- as you always have -- remember that our success is not an entitlement, but something we need to earn, every day.” 
  
 Still, the Starbucks brand has “never been stronger or more relevant,” he said. 
  
 “I can assure you that we will continue to lead and manage the company through the lens of humanity, doing everything we possibly can to continue to make your families proud of our company and all we stand for,” Schultz said. |||||  
  
 Starbucks chairman and chief executive Howard Schultz speaks during a press conference at the Opportunity Fair and Forum in Chicago earlier this month. (Peter Wynn Thompson/AP Images for 100,000 Opportunities Initiative) 
  
 If the only person who soothed you during Monday’s stock-market chaos was an extra-friendly Starbucks barista, thank Howard Schultz. In a flowery memo to the chain’s 190,000 employees (called “partners” in Starbucks lingo), the coffee giant’s billionaire chairman and chief executive told baristas to be especially sensitive to the customers asking them for a cup of joe. 
  
 “Today’s financial market volatility, combined with great political uncertainty both at home and abroad, will undoubtedly have an effect on consumer confidence and … our customers are likely to experience an increased level of anxiety and concern,” Schultz wrote in his “Message from Howard” morning email, which Starbucks provided to the Washington Post. 
  
 “Please recognize this and – as you always have – remember that our success is not an entitlement, but something we need to earn, every day,” Schultz continued. “Let’s be very sensitive to the pressures our customers may be feeling, and do everything we can to individually and collectively exceed their expectations.” 
  
 Schultz, 62, has long been a believer in the greater social good achievable at the cappuccino machine. He was the driving force behind Starbucks’ ridiculed “Race Together” campaign, which encouraged baristas to write the phrase on cups while talking with customers about America’s racial tensions. That campaign was an outgrowth of the chain’s 2012 “Come Together” campaign, designed to urge lawmakers to avoid the fiscal cliff. 
  
 [Why Starbucks chief Howard Schultz put himself at the center of America’s race debate] 
  
 The free-spirited social pushes have helped cement Schultz as one of the more outspoken — and, as critics say, tone-deaf — executives in corporate America’s typically taciturn upper ranks. In 2006, the Brooklyn-born billionaire told “60 Minutes,” “We’re not in the business of filling bellies. We’re in the business of filling souls.” 
  
 That executive-as-statesman social posturing has fueled speculation that he’s eyeing the presidency, though Schultz says he’d rather stay in business: “Despite the encouragement of others,” he wrote earlier this month, “I have no intention of entering the presidential fray.” 
  
 [People keep asking Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz if he’s running for president—and he keeps saying no] 
  
 It’s unclear just how many bad days were saved due to Starbucks’ employees’ added compassion. But the campaign is part of a broader push to catapult Starbucks into the spotlight with a reputation that’s hard to buy: As a warm-hearted corporate behemoth who always keeps Americans’ (caffeine and personal) needs in mind. 
  
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Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz hopes his customers aren't crying into their cappuccinos after yesterday's stock market plunge. In an email to all 190,000 Starbucks employees, Schultz urges workers to recognize that a lot of customers may be stressed out and in need of "very sensitive" treatment from baristas, the Washington Post reports. The "financial market volatility" coupled with political uncertainty means "our customers are likely to experience an increased level of anxiety and concern," Schultz writes, asking workers to "do everything we can to individually and collectively exceed their expectations." Schultz also assures workers that the company will be able to weather any stock market chaos, promising great things ahead with Starbucks' "highly relevant coffee and tea innovation and differentiated customer-facing mobile and digital technologies." Schultz himself may have needed some "very sensitive" treatment yesterday: At one point, Starbucks shares plummeted around 20% before bouncing back, Bloomberg reports. (Earlier this year, Schultz was widely mocked after he decided Starbucks employees should try to start conversations about racial issues.)