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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. For years, we had learned that a good vision is a BHAG (a Big Hairy Audacious Goal) and that it should be a short, memorable slogan. But inherently, “seeing what works” is optimizing for short-term results.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

QUESTION 1: What is your BHAG? BHAG stands for Big Hairy Audacious Goal , a concept introduced by Jim Collins in his book, “Built to Last.” The best definition that I seen is that a BHAG is a statement of strategic intent. Starbuck’s BHAG is to overtake Coke as the world’s leading brand. QUESTION 2: For what purpose ….?

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

Experience to Lead

Sandeep Khanna, Managing Director, APAC, brings over three decades of professional experience across advertising, marketing and learning to our team from leading organizations like Grab and Facebook. Most companies have a tendency to cut back on learning and tend to view development as a luxury when times are tough.

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

Kevin Eikenberry

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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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. This is the win/win/win stage of development.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. A Normal Process for Team Development.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. Katzenbach and Douglas K. About the Author.

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