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

Terry Starbucker

I’ve experienced that plenty of times in my career, at one moment preaching about a “BHAG” – the Big, Hairy Audacious Goal – and just a few moments later drilling down and coming to terms on a missed quarterly target) . I can sum that up in three ways: 1) Dream big qualitatively, always.

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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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Feed the Startup Beast: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Bob''s blog entries BHAG Big Big Hairy Audacious Goal Drew Williams Feed the Startup Beast: A 7-Step Guide to Big Hairy How and why "the smallest market efforts can produce outsized sales results if you focus on the right issues" Jonathan Verney McGraw-Hill Michael Porter Outrageous Sales Growth Peter Drucker'

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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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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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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. This is what separates the great from the good.

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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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