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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) . Unrealistic budgets and operational goals are morale (and job) killers.

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Inspiring Leadership: Bringing Purpose to Life

The Practical Leader

” That’s a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) I’ve pursued most of my career! Let purpose drive your strategy and operations. The CEO’s redefinition of his role from operational manager to purposeful leader , has been one of the key factors in the strong success this hospital had in shifting its culture.

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15 Steps To Great Leadership (The More Human Way)

Terry Starbucker

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. “How did you do this? I mean, to get from where you started to where you ended up must have been a hell of a story.”.

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Goldilocks, The Three Bears, And Effective Goal Setting

Terry Starbucker

This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e. the number of times a customer called in with any kind of problem with their service).

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What are your inner critics saying and why?

CO2

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). They don’t want us to be embarrassed, feel rejection, or be uncomfortable. They limit us.

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Consider Not Setting Goals in 2013

Harvard Business Review

Big Hairy Audacious Goals (or BHAGs, as they're known to the inner goal-setting crowd). The Pinto resulted in 53 deaths and many more injuries because workers omitted safety checks in pursuit of Lee Iacocca's BHAG goal of a car that would be "under 2000 pounds and under $2,000" by 1970. And not just any goals, but stretch goals.

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