Terry Starbucker

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Setting the right targets and goals over the short and long terms is a fine art that requires a delicate blend of unbridled optimism and cold-eyed realism, sometimes bordering on schizophrenia. (I’ve 3) Dream and Goal set realistically in a 12-24 month window, and, this is very important: If you hit them, raise the bar quickly.

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BHAG Company Short-term Long-term 391

Terry Starbucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Once upon a time, there was a little girl called Goldilocks…… I’ve done a lot of budgeting, planning, and goal setting over the course of my career. This was a goal typically tied to an operating metric, like the Net Promoter Score, or the company’s “fault rate&# (i.e. If we hit it, we raised it.

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Goal CPA BHAG Kaizen 283

The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

” 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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Leadership BHAG CEO Cooper 75

CO2

AUGUST 16, 2012

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). You can walk away from a colleague that talks negatively about you or one of your goals. They limit us.

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BHAG Resistance Goal Commitment 117

Terry Starbucker

JULY 12, 2015

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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BHAG Leadership Telecommunications Metrics 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

I had achieved my goal of getting them to the door with their teeth brushed in record time. We all know how important it is to have goals, right? And not just any goals, but stretch goals. And not just any goals, but stretch goals. It's not that goals, by their nature, are bad. Compelling, right?

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Goal BHAG Wilde Class 21