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Finding Your Bigness Balance: Seven Ways to Properly Set the Size.

Kevin Eikenberry

One point of a goal is to help you think creatively about reaching your destination. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Once the answer to this question is yes, consider if it moves you far enough, fast enough. How much does this goal stretch my thinking?

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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

I’ve written that the “secret of life&# is never growing up, and indeed, that child’s sense of wonder is an element of idea generation that just HAS to be there if an organization is going to swing for the fences with big changes, or to go after those “BHAGs&# (big, hairy and audacious goals).