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

The Empowered Buisness

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? What “enemies” (external or internal) will you have to defeat along the way to achieve your BHAGs?

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

Experience to Lead

Understanding local and global trends within the L&D space can set great leaders apart from just good ones. Understanding local and global trends within the L&D space can set great leaders apart from just good ones. They are proactive, set BHAG goals and get things done. This is what separates the great from the good.

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Overcome the Eight Barriers to Confidence

Harvard Business Review

I know how often leaders say they want to tackle BHAGs — “big hairy audacious goals.” It’s one thing to be realistic, it’s another to behave like a loser before entering the game. Goals that are too big or too distant. ” But having only enormous goals can actually undermine confidence.

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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. trillion each year , 5% of the global gross domestic product. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world. 5% of GDP over six years.