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The Secret to Maximum Impact

Lead Change Blog

Your year just started and you’re probably already behind on your “you think we’re good now, but soon we’ll be great” BHAG ( thank you, Jim Collins, for introducing the world to Big Hairy Audacious Goals ). Setting the goal is never the issue—it’s following through. Marginal Adjustments. Think about it.

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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 3) Dream and Goal set realistically in a 12-24 month window, and, this is very important: If you hit them, raise the bar quickly.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

Creating world-class products and services is a discipline that some organizations seem to master, and others struggle to achieve. Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Radhika’s experience building products in numerous industries is evident in every chapter. Radhika Dutt.

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9 Awesome Things You Can Learn From Drinking Coffee With Entrepreneurs

Terry Starbucker

Innovation (with Purpose) - Steve Jobs has to be smiling from above these days, because just about everyone I speak to wants their product to change the world (or at least make someone’s life better). Also, this naivete extends to the service and/or product idea itself (i.e.

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10 Important Questions Leaders Need To Ask

Eric Jacobson

Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Are our products/services creating lasting, positive memories for our customers? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization?

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG? BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” The best definition that I seen is that a BHAG is a statement of strategic intent. Starbuck’s BHAG is to overtake Coke as the world’s leading brand.

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Leadership Lessons From The Book, Helping People Win At Work

Eric Jacobson

Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Are our products/services creating lasting, positive memories for our customers? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization?

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