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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) .

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Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

An industrial products company started monitoring blogs, boards, and other social media platforms around maintenance and service complaints and then mapping that data to internal client maintenance data. Limited ambition did a better job attracting credibility and support than BHAGs.

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