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

Terry Starbucker

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) . I can sum that up in three ways: 1) Dream big qualitatively, always.

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Leadership Lessons from Pfizer-BioNTech’s Vaccine Development

The Practical Leader

Serving People, Not Pushing Products – “throughout my career…I have encouraged the entire organization to adopt a patient-first mentality, measuring outcomes by people served rather than drugs sold.” ” Throughout his career, Bourla hung pictures of patients on walls of their buildings around the world. .”

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs). A complete career change. Career-wise, this is the granddaddy of development moves. It could involve new people, markets, customers, products, tools, and processes, all of which are opportunities to learn and develop. A job change. A geographic move. Get in shape.

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