The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

It sounds great in an annual report, but how do leaders actually use it, day by day, to make difficult trade-offs, engage customers, energize employees, and attract investors?” ” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career!

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 6, 2012

A Zenger Folkman whitepaper entitled, “From BHAGs to SMART Goals: What Makes a Stretch Goal” provides practical tips and techniques in a three step process. While moving leadership performance from good to great is much more attainable than an Olympic medal, it does involve setting stretch goals.

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CO2

AUGUST 2, 2012

Real goals–big hairy audacious goals (BHAGs)–mean failure could happen. Related Posts: How to Achieve Your GOAL, not goals. The key to goal-setting is that you really have to stretch to reach the goal. I used to have a coffee cup that said, “What would you attempt today if you knew that you could not fail?”

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The Practical Leader

AUGUST 6, 2012

A Zenger Folkman whitepaper entitled, “From BHAGs to SMART Goals: What Makes a Stretch Goal” provides practical tips and techniques in a three step process. While moving leadership performance from good to great is much more attainable than an Olympic medal, it does involve setting stretch goals.

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Experience to Lead

AUGUST 26, 2021

They are proactive, set BHAG goals and get things done. They know resources are always scarce and they know how to optimize them. This is what separates the great from the good. Make Great Choices: Finally, they have the uncanny ability to make great choices.

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Kevin Eikenberry

DECEMBER 6, 2010

These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. Five Reasons to Make Discomfort Your Friend How to Get Lazy People to Work Ten Decisions Leaders Make Everyday Ten Ways to Make a Great First Impression Five Minutes - a Key to Successful Time Management Kevin Eikenberry: Thanks Dave!

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 8, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. How to eliminate mediocrity from employee performance-for good. Expect conflict.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 25, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. How to eliminate mediocrity from employee performance-for good.

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Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. How to eliminate mediocrity from employee performance-for good. A degree of excitement about the concept of team.

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Eric Jacobson

OCTOBER 8, 2015

How much of what you read in books and on Blogs about how to lead Millennials do you believe is good advice. The intersection of these three circles is your BHAG, or big hairy audacious goal, The BAHG forms the basis for your company’s great opportunity. Curiosity is the sign of a world-changing, great , individual.

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Strategy Driven

JULY 18, 2012

With humor, real-world examples, and step-by-step guides, the book explains: How to make mission, values, and BHAGS relevant to daily organizational life. How to transform groups into high-performance teams. How to eliminate mediocrity from employee performance-for good.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

We all know how important it is to have goals, right? Big Hairy Audacious Goals (or BHAGs, as they're known to the inner goal-setting crowd). We might debate which goals to set, or how to set them, but who would debate whether to set goals at all? And not just any goals, but stretch goals. Still, that's just one specious story.

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First Friday Book Synopsis

JANUARY 24, 2012

The 10X Rule: The Only Difference Between Success and Failure Grant Cardone John Wiley & Sons (2011) How to increase sustainable fulfillment of human potentialities, one’s own as well as those of others Many years ago, I read a book written by David J. Schwartz, The Magic of Thinking Big, that helped me to widen [.].

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Tanveer Naseer

JULY 11, 2017

How excited do you get about “reasonable” goals? How much more excited are you about dreaming big? How much more motivating are BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals)? When you have a stronger relationship with your boss, you have a better handle on how to help her reach her goals. Share information. Ask for advice.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

I know how often leaders say they want to tackle BHAGs — “big hairy audacious goals.” Even in difficult circumstances, we have choices about how to respond to adversity. It’s one thing to be realistic, it’s another to behave like a loser before entering the game. Blaming someone else.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

The goal is to make all of the organization — not just the geeks and quants — more conversant in how to align probability, statistics, technology and business value creation. Limited ambition did a better job attracting credibility and support than BHAGs.

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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. Is it better to attach conditions, or do the poor know best how to spend their money? While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world. Do you give them cash or assets ?

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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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