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10 BIG Development Goals for Leaders for 2012

Great Leadership By Dan

That includes individual development goals. In a business context, individual development goals should be closely aligned with your short and long term job responsibilities. Each and every person’s situation is different, so there is no one-size-fits-all development plan. No, these are the big, hairy, audacious, goals (BHAGs).

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Willy Wonka and the Leadership Idea Factory

Terry Starbucker

I’ve written that the “secret of life&# is never growing up, and indeed, that child’s sense of wonder is an element of idea generation that just HAS to be there if an organization is going to swing for the fences with big changes, or to go after those “BHAGs&# (big, hairy and audacious goals).

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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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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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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 2

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. A Normal Process for Team Development.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 3

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. This is the win/win/win stage of development.

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Creating Customer Focused Teams, Part 1

Strategy Driven

Front Line Heroes : Battling the business Tsunami by developing high performance organizations (Volume 1) by Bruce Hodes. It is possible to develop and grow powerful organizations in challenging times-it just takes courage, determination, and actionable techniques that work. Katzenbach and Douglas K. About the Author.

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