The Practical Leader

APRIL 27, 2022

In his editorial, “Making Purpose Real,” Harvard Business Review , editor, Adi Ignatius, writes, “Too often, discussions of managing with ‘purpose’ can be frustratingly vague. ” I especially resonate with what Ignatius says is HBR’s purpose, “to rid the world of bad management.”

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Leadership BHAG CEO Cooper 75

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. Choose them wisely, and keep them to a small and manageable number. “How did you do this? It was May of 2010.

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BHAG Leadership Telecommunications Metrics 150

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2012

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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Goal BHAG Wilde Class 21