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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) . See what I mean? 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

Knowing the power of questions, at the start of each retreat, I ask myself …. Every year I walk away with powerful questions that, simply by asking them, transform my thinking, direction and excitement for the future. To embrace and utilize the power of questions within yourself and your organization on a daily basis.

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7 Leadership Questions That Will Move Your Needle in 2016

The Empowered Buisness

That is the magic and power of questions! 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. While asking yourself the question … What is our BHAG? …

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How to Develop a Radical Product Thinking Mindset

Skip Prichard

Methodologies such Lean Startup and Agile have taught us to innovate faster by harnessing the power of iteration. We’ve learned to build products and scale our companies by testing things in the market, seeing what works, and iterating. In essence, you need clarity of vision and strategy before you try different marketing tactics.

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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

Satisfaction, pride and confidence are powerful motivators and sustainers of activity and effort. These goals have been labeled by Jim Collins (and others) as a BHAG – a Big, Hairy, Audacious Goal. If you set a big goal it forces you to ask completely different questions and forces you to challenge your assumptions.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. 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.

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