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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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Stop Searching for That Elusive Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

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. The tools were crude and, frankly, the individual technical and statistical expertise of the teams was limited.

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