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Leadership Freak
JANUARY 23, 2023
Jim Collins explains the acronym BHAG – big harry audacious goal – in Built to Last. Big goals and weekend jeans have nothing in common. We say stupid things because everyone else says… Continue reading → Goals Leadership Development Leading meaningful action set goals
First Friday Book Synopsis
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
Last night, Morley Safer interviewed David McCullough on 60 Minutes. Great interview! Here’s McCullough’s Amazon page. He is a national treasure. Read and watch the 60 Minutes segment here). Here’s my favorite excerpt: David McCullough (Outside Carpenter’s Hall, where the Revolution was born in secret): Upstairs in the hall, there’s a library. The country’s very first [.]. Randy's blog entries
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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 ). This uber-ordinary guy has inspired millions of people to take steps toward greatness without being totally overwhelmed by BHAGs. You can change your trajectory and likelihood of hitting your BHAG by choosing to make marginal adjustments, not massive ones.
General Leadership
OCTOBER 9, 2017
Curator Posts Holiday BHAG Built to Last CNN Collins Columbus Day Communication fritz goal setting Goals Heath Brothers holiday Integrity Porras standard Switch Wall Street Journal“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Christopher Columbus. It’s a seldom discussed fact that Christopher Columbus nearly missed his chance to make the history books in his 1492 discovery of the “New World.”
General Leadership
OCTOBER 12, 2015
Curator Posts Early Files BHAG Built to Last CNN Collins Columbus Day Communication fritz goal setting Goals Heath Brothers holiday Integrity Porras standard Switch Wall Street JournalGeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America's Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Christopher Columbus.
General Leadership
OCTOBER 13, 2014
Curator Posts BHAG Built to Last CNN Collins Columbus Day Communication fritz goal setting Goals Heath Brothers Integrity Porras Switch Wall Street Journal “You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”. Christopher Columbus. It’s a seldom discussed fact that Christopher Columbus nearly missed his chance to make the history books in his 1492 discovery of the “New World.”
The Empowered Buisness
MARCH 4, 2014
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? What “enemies” (external or internal) will you have to defeat along the way to achieve your BHAGs?
First Friday Book Synopsis
MAY 24, 2012
Bob's blog entries "the doing-knowing gap" "the knowing-doing gap" "Vision without execution is hallucination" 4DX) Bob Sutton Chris McChesney Free Press/A Division of Simon & Schuster Jeff Pfeffer Jim Collins BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) Jim Huling Sean Covey The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Thomas Edison WIGs
First Friday Book Synopsis
FEBRUARY 28, 2012
Bob's blog entries "taking on some deep work - the kind of work that needs to be done for us to be leaders in our lives A 21st century version of Plato's Allegory of the Cave Big Hairy Audacious Goal (BHAG) Built to Last Dave Logan how Three Laws of Performance can help to complete a natural shift "from disengaged to proactive Jerry Porras Jim Collins Jossey-Bass/A Wiley Imprint Steve Zaffron The Three Laws of Performance: Rewriting the Future of Your Organization and Your Life Warren Bennis
First Friday Book Synopsis
OCTOBER 3, 2013
Bob''s blog entries BHAG Big Big Hairy Audacious Goal Drew Williams Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big Hairy How and why "the smallest market efforts can produce outsized sales results if you focus on the right issues" Jonathan Verney McGraw-Hill Michael Porter Outrageous Sales Growth Peter Drucker
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.” ” Peter Drucker I selected this observation by Drucker (1963) because it continues to suggest caution when deciding [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 24, 2012
Bob's blog entries BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) Built to Last David J. The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Grant Cardone John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to increase sustainable fulfillment of human potentialities, one’s own as well as those of others Many years ago, I read a book written by David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, that helped me to widen [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JULY 4, 2011
Mavericks at Work: Why the Most Original Minds in Business Win William C. Taylor and Polly G. Labarre Harper Paperbacks (2008) How an organization can prosper in a “hypercompetitive marketplace” As William C. Taylor and Polly LaBarre explain in this book, Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-70) was a wealthy land speculator in southwest Texas who cared [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
MARCH 18, 2011
Bob's blog entries Albert Einstein Andy Hertzfeld “Vision without execution is hallucination” BHAG (i.e. Ten Steps Ahead: What Separates Successful Business Visionaries from the Rest of Us Erik Calonius Portfolio/Penguin Group (2011) Dreamers think about it…visionaries see it and then make it happen, at whatever cost The material in Ten Steps Ahead is based on what Erik Calonius learned during his research (including interviews of various business visionaries) from [.].
First Friday Book Synopsis
JANUARY 26, 2012
In Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras urge business leaders to set what they characterize as BHAGs: Big Hairy Audacious Goals. ” A true BHAG is clear and compelling, serves as unifying focal point of effort, and acts as a clear catalyst [.]. That is, an “audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress toward an envisioned future.” Bob's blog entries Beyond Performance Measure Harvard Review Press Jeremy Hope Steve Player Stretch Goals: Do's and Don'ts When
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 20, 2016
I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) . When is a dream too big? When is it not big enough? When should the dream change? And who should be the one sorting it all out for an organization and/or team pushing for greatness? YOU, the leader. .
Leading Blog
JUNE 18, 2020
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. I N 1986, Professor Emeritus of history and literature of religion at New York University, James P.
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 14, 2021
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?
Eric Jacobson
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?
Eric Jacobson
NOVEMBER 11, 2020
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees?
Terry Starbucker
MARCH 25, 2012
The Need of the BHAG – Speaking of millions, entrepreneurs nurture the BHAG – the big hairy audacious goal – like a mother hen looking after her chicks. Since I moved to Portland about 16 months ago, I’ve hung out with a lot of entrepreneurs, in coffee shops all over town. Yes, here I spread my coffee dollars around between the national chains and the local brews).
The Empowered Buisness
JANUARY 26, 2016
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. While asking yourself the question … What is our BHAG? … To learn how to develop and test your BHAG, refer to Collin’s book, Built to Last.
Terry Starbucker
NOVEMBER 11, 2012
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. There’s a foundation to successful business execution that is undeniably critical – the workplace culture. Bad cultures can’t execute very well. Period. You might even say that they are doomed to failure, rich in dysfunction, seeped in mistrust, and (most often) guided by fear.
Lead Change Blog
JULY 16, 2019
We’ve set up a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal (BHAG) and we start working toward it. At one point in my son’s life, school was not his highest priority. There were so many other things that claimed his attention. There was basketball and other activities. There was learning about computers and how to make them do what you wanted. Then, he saw the movie Top Gun. One reviewer said that the star of the movie wasn’t any of the actors. It was the airplanes. Flying those things became the goal.
Leading Blog
JANUARY 3, 2019
What is that one thing I need to accomplish in 2019—your BHAG—my Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal? I N 1686, Sir Isaac Newton presented three laws of motion. The first law is often referred to as the Law of Inertia. The law states that every object will remain at rest or continue in a straight line unless compelled to change its state by the action of an external force. In other words, things stay the way they are unless something comes along to disrupt them.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 25, 2015
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Aspire-CS
JUNE 8, 2015
Masterful a cappella groups spend a lot of time defining their vision: the BHAG’s they see themselves achieving in the future. . Driving along the highway with the radio tuned to the Here & Now show, I was just “sort of” listening. But then….Deke Deke Sharon (producer for The Sing Off and both Pitch Perfect movies) came on to be interviewed about the resurgence of interest in a cappella music. I pumped my fist and shouted YEAH!
Eric Jacobson
SEPTEMBER 29, 2014
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Eric Jacobson
SEPTEMBER 14, 2018
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Eric Jacobson
APRIL 29, 2015
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Joseph Lalonde
JANUARY 14, 2015
Jim Collins coined the acronym BHAG for Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals. T hroughout history, the battle cry has been used to rally troops to come together and defeat a great enemy. The same goes for battle cries in cinema and modern story telling. The leader pulls it together, gives out a shout, and him and his team give the opposing forces a run for their money. Image by Andrew Gould. The battle cry has been a powerful force.
Eric Jacobson
NOVEMBER 6, 2015
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Eric Jacobson
JULY 31, 2015
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Eric Jacobson
FEBRUARY 25, 2013
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Tanveer Naseer
JULY 11, 2017
How much more motivating are BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)? The following is a guest piece by Larry Sternberg. Fuelling top performance is the goal for most leaders and managers. The best managers know their people are the key to achieving top performance on every metric of success they track. As a leader or manager, how can you make the biggest difference through leveraging the talents and efforts of the people on your team? This handful of specific strategies can help.
Eric Jacobson
JANUARY 21, 2018
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
Terry Starbucker
JULY 12, 2015
1) 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. Frank sat back, shook his head, and looked me straight in the eyes. “How did you do this? I mean, to get from where you started to where you ended up must have been a hell of a story.”. It was May of 2010. We had just finished a review of one of our operating centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
The Practical Leader
MAY 12, 2021
” Depending how they’re used, BHAGs (Big, Hairy, Audacious Goals) can enervate or elevate. One of the biggest success stories to emerge from the COVID-19 crisis is the incredibly quick development of life-saving vaccines.
Terry Starbucker
JULY 17, 2016
I’ve written that the “secret of life” is never growing up, and indeed, that child’s sense of wonder is an element of idea generation that just HAS to be there if an organization is going to swing for the fences with big changes, or to go after those “BHAGs” (big, hairy and audacious goals). Want to change the world? There’s nothing to it.
Eric Jacobson
MAY 15, 2013
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge, authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization? Am I creating a culture that increases employee engagement?
The Practical Leader
APRIL 27, 2022
” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career! I wrote this story for the Purpose chapter in Pathways to Performance : Two workers were digging a trench and laying cable. A neighborhood boy came by on his bike to inspect the work.
Eric Jacobson
AUGUST 11, 2017
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? Do I have the right people in the right seats on the bus? Are my values driving the behavior I want in my organization?
Eric Jacobson
MARCH 29, 2017
Do I have a BHAG (big hairy audacious goal), and have I communicated it to my employees? Here are 10 important questions business leaders should ask, according to Ken Blanchard and Garry Ridge , authors of Helping People Win At Work : Does my business have a clear, meaningful, and easily understood vision/mission? 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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