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12 Strategic Thinking Questions That Yield Big Results. The Bonus Question Is The Punch Line.

The Empowered Buisness

To embrace and utilize the power of questions within yourself and your organization on a daily basis. 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? In order to achieve your BHAGs, what innovative ideas and strategies did you have to come up with?

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The Infinite Game

Leading Blog

In business, playing with an infinite mindset means building an organization to last well beyond our own leadership. Built to last organizations are both stable and resilient. But we can choose if we want to play and whether we will play it with a finite or an infinite mindset. It is the long game. A Just Cause is more than a goal.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

To move the needle in your organization in 2016, the first place to start is by asking thought-provoking questions. 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.” Starbuck’s BHAG is to overtake Coke as the world’s leading brand.

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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

An especially exciting medical breakthrough is the development of messenger RNA (mRNA) technology now used in Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. ” Depending how they’re used, BHAGs (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals) can enervate or elevate. They’re a major step toward getting life back to some semblance of normal.

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Tackling Local and Global L&D Trends – A Dialogue with Sandeep Khanna & VJ Posadas

Experience to Lead

Sandeep Khanna, Managing Director, APAC, brings over three decades of professional experience across advertising, marketing and learning to our team from leading organizations like Grab and Facebook. They are proactive, set BHAG goals and get things done. This is what separates the great from the good.

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Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

For many organizations, a mediocre data scientist may be worse than none at all. Chances are slim that your organization would even be able take full advantage of their talent. Limited ambition did a better job attracting credibility and support than BHAGs. What to do? My immediate advice: Give up.

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