Lead Change Blog
FEBRUARY 6, 2020
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 ). Your Twitter feed is full of success stories. Setting the goal is never the issue—it’s following through.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.
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Terry Starbucker
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e. Why would I do such a thing?
Lead Change Blog
JULY 16, 2019
Flying those things became the goal. We’ve set up a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal (BHAG) and we start working toward it. Most folks call it the Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal, but I like the term “big WHY.”. That’s true for any of your goals, too. You also need to know what success feels like. It was the airplanes.
The Empowered Buisness
MARCH 4, 2014
For 3-4 days, I spend time by the ocean simply reflecting, letting go of any goals, plans or expectations. Vision, Goals and Strategies. As you envision where you want your company to be in 10 years, what BHAGs (big hairy audacious goals) do you see your company achieving? I simply allow myself to just be. Why not me?
Leading Blog
JUNE 18, 2020
A Just Cause is more than a goal. Sinek notes, “It’s easy to mistake a BHAG (big, hairy audacious goal) for a Just Cause because they can indeed be incredibly inspiring and can often take many years to achieve. Simply choosing another big, audacious goal is not infinite play, it’s just another finite pursuit.”
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 11, 2012
There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Set the “BHAG” – Teammates want to be a part of something bigger then just “profit”, find a “big, hairy, audacious goal” and run for it. Yep, that’s about right.
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