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The Big WHY

Lead Change Blog

As I opened the door to the house, I realized that my son was watching a video in the living room. We’ve set up a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal (BHAG) and we start working toward it. When I work with clients who are writing a book, we spend time defining why they’re doing the project. Writing a book is tough.

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The Infinite Game

Leading Blog

Carse, wrote a book entitled Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility. 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. He stated that there are two kinds of games.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

Radhika Dutt presents a different approach in her book Radical Product Thinking. Although commonly used words such as vision and strategy might make it seem that this book would summarize truisms we’ve heard before, true to the name radical, RPT shakes up all that we’ve been taught on each of these topics to date. Radhika Dutt.

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Q&A With Millennial CEO And Book Author Rick Lindquist

Eric Jacobson

Rick Lindquist Millennial Rick Lindquist is making his mark in the business world and enjoying the success of his co-authored 2014 bestseller book, The End of Employer-Provided Health Insurance. Today, he kindly answered questions about leadership, mentors, his book, and Millennials in the workplace. Why or why not? Good advice.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. Open dialogue and discussion are useful to moving things forward. Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. How to transform groups into high-performance teams.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2

Strategy Driven

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. Open and honest communication. Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. Shared leadership.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

I’m not talking about reading a book, taking a course, doing some networking, or fine-tuning some aspect of your current skillset. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs). I learned about this from Steve Farber, who authored a book by the same name. John Ratey’s website and book, Spark (I saw him speak recently).

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