Terry Starbucker

MARCH 25, 2012

Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. I was a “corporate guy” for so many years (28 to be exact), and while I thought I knew what it was really like to “think like an entrepreneur”, it turns out I really didn’t know.

Entrepreneur 419

Entrepreneur BHAG Learning-by-Doing Productivity 419

Experience to Lead

AUGUST 26, 2021

I see an L&D leader as a bit of an entrepreneur in the company. Maybe this view is fueled by my time at Facebook and Grab and now at WDHB, but I see many parallels between an entrepreneur and an L&D leader. Keep the Momentum Going: Successful entrepreneurs are gritty and never give up.

Trends 52

Trends Globalization Entrepreneur BHAG 52

Skip Prichard

JANUARY 10, 2022

Whether you’re an entrepreneur, executive, or civic leader, Radical Product Thinking gives you a methodology for being vision-driven and systematically translate your vision for change into reality. For years, we had learned that a good vision is a BHAG (a Big Hairy Audacious Goal) and that it should be a short, memorable slogan.

Productivity 112

Productivity Products Development Short-term 112

First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 28, 2012

The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses Eric Ries Crown Business (2011) “There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.”

Ries 103

Ries Drucker Review Entrepreneur 103

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. I’d like to see the private sector, philanthropists, and social entrepreneurs throw their weight behind this idea to end poverty for all. If we’re to end poverty, we can’t ignore them.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance BHAG NGO Participative 8