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12 Strategic Thinking Questions That Yield Big Results. The Bonus Question Is The Punch Line.

The Empowered Buisness

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? Markets, Competitors and Customers. Open up conversations.

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Tackling Local and Global L&D Trends – A Dialogue with Sandeep Khanna & VJ Posadas

Experience to Lead

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. Take Ownership: Like successful entrepreneurs, L&D leaders take ownership of their actions.

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Finding Your Bigness Balance: Seven Ways to Properly Set the Size.

Kevin Eikenberry

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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An Approach to Ending Poverty That Works

Harvard Business Review

Ending extreme poverty by 2030 is the BHAG – the big, hairy audacious goal – of our generation. ” Microfinance and other market-based interventions don’t generally reach them. We need to tap into their creative power. At BRAC , where I work, we call this subset the “ultra-poor.”

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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

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).