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Dream Adjusters: Why Company Leaders Also Have To Be Chief Calibration Officers

Terry Starbucker

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 2) Dream aggressively quantitatively over a long-term horizon, tempered by economic factors at the “macro” level.

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

On the other hand, if you’ve ever experienced being iteration-led in an organization, you know that it feels like you’re tinkering and focusing on the short term but ultimately missing out on the large-scale opportunity. We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating.

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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. They are proactive, set BHAG goals and get things done. Climate change is a near-term reality and not a far-fetched dystopian scenario.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

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. I first saw this term used in the book Raving Fans by Ken Blanchard. Seven essential rules for effective strategic planning. How to transform groups into high-performance teams.

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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs). It could involve new people, markets, customers, products, tools, and processes, all of which are opportunities to learn and develop.

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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. While skepticism abounds, momentum is on our side, with poverty rates falling in every region of world.

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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

It’s that power of the imagination, and while it can create a magical (and admittedly sometimes scary) candy factory, it can also create a similarly wondrous “idea factory&# that can drive leadership success, and long-term profitability. How can a leader build an effective idea factory?