The Empowered Buisness

MARCH 4, 2014

Solve problems creatively. 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? Questions have the power to: Transform. Open up conversations.

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Persuasive Powerhouse

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. Conflict of ideas can foster creativity, but behavior that is disrespectful kills new ideas. Working together with your team on the vision can be an exercise in working toward harmony in itself.

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Experience to Lead

AUGUST 26, 2021

A leader’s ability to communicate current insights and relevant predictions in the industry can inspire innovation and creativity among team members. They are proactive, set BHAG goals and get things done. Understanding local and global trends within the L&D space can set great leaders apart from just good ones.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

One point of a goal is to help you think creatively about reaching your destination. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Once the answer to this question is yes, consider if it moves you far enough, fast enough. How much does this goal stretch my thinking?

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

To put these ideas into practice, a commodity food business we recently worked with began encouraging some of its facilities to set a “ BHAG ” (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for conversion cost-per-unit while at the same time mandating a budgeted conversion cost.

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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. We need to tap into their creative power. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world. We need to imagine a world where they don’t just survive – they thrive.

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Terry Starbucker

AUGUST 8, 2010

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).

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