Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 3) Dream and Goal set realistically in a 12-24 month window, and, this is very important: If you hit them, raise the bar quickly.

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BHAG Company Short-term Long-term 391

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e. If we hit it, we raised it.

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Goal CPA BHAG Kaizen 283

The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

” But the big leadership challenge is finding and bringing purpose to life. ” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career! Let purpose drive your strategy and operations. We can never know the profoundest joy without a conviction that our life is significant ??

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Leadership BHAG CEO Cooper 75

Terry Starbucker

JULY 12, 2015

We had just finished a review of one of our operating centers in Cheyenne, Wyoming. After all, this was a telecommunications and cable TV operation, and they were used to observing a far different situation. But there, along that linear path, was the framework, path, and process for leadership success. “How did you do this?

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BHAG Leadership Telecommunications Metrics 150

CO2

AUGUST 16, 2012

To protect us, however, they operate as inner critics. In doing so, they sabotage us and prevent us from achieving (or even trying to achieve) a big, hairy, audacious goal (a BHAG as it is sometimes called). You can walk away from a colleague that talks negatively about you or one of your goals. They limit us.

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BHAG Resistance Goal Commitment 117