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

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. To be more specific, for each goal, consider setting a range of targets like this: Target A – This is a perfect world scenario, I/we absolutely want it goal. Target B – This is a big, but potentially believable goal.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

As consultants, we once helped a manufacturing plant director discover how we could save $20 million from his costs in the coming year. At quarterly performance reviews, the budgeted conversion costs were acknowledged but the focus was primarily on how each facility was tracking toward its BHAG and what it could be doing to strive further.

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The Practical Leader

JULY 29, 2020

Terry Fox certainly set a Big Hairy Audacious Goal ( BHAG ) to run across Canada on an artificial leg. ” Strong leaders build on successes and string together incremental gains to boost short-term confidence for the long-term journey. We know that one of the competencies leveraged by some extraordinary leaders is setting stretch goals.

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 11, 2017

How much more motivating are BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)? Sternberg is a senior executive at management consulting firm Talent Plus. Be Unreasonably Optimistic SMART goals are overrated. How excited do you get about “reasonable” goals? How much more excited are you about dreaming big?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

Limited ambition did a better job attracting credibility and support than BHAGs. But, unsurprisingly, the outside advisors — in one case, an academic, in others, quants from digital consultancies — were better able to collaborate with teams that had really tried to get their minds around a design challenge.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 22, 2015

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world.

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