An
audacious goal refers to a challenging or daring objective that may seem difficult to achieve but is inspiring and worth pursuing. It typically involves taking risks and pushing boundaries to achieve something remarkable or groundbreaking.
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If you're considering setting a Big
Hairy Audacious Goal for your company, then you must also consider the full commitment that will be required to achieve that goal.
We often think we need a lighting moment to start writing or we put a lot of pressure on ourselves by setting
audacious goals of writing once a day.
D. Lewis: In my recent State of the School Address I shared a number of big,
audacious goals for our school.
Perhaps that's because it's easy to criticize a company
with audacious goals yet with relatively few of its products actually on the street, but it's also hard not to cheer on the efforts of a forward - thinking company like Tesla, which aims to bring an integrated clean energy / energy storage / transportation solution to the masses, even if the economics don't quite work yet for the average person.
I can be inarticulate about our
most audacious goals because it seems unfair to even ask for what we really need to do.
But through a true team effort we exceeded that first
audacious goal in just nine years.
«Report on the National Eye Institute
Audacious Goals Initiative: Replacement of Retinal Ganglion Cells from Endogenous Cell Sources,» by Monica Vetter and Peter Hitchcock, Translational Vision Science & Technology, March 2017.
Uniqlo has been expanding aggressively worldwide, «They have a
pretty audacious goal to dominate globally,» retail analyst David Ian Gray told Canadian Business in 2013.
If you do achieve the goal, you're happy but only for a moment because there's inevitably someone else you can compare yourself to who achieved a
more audacious goal.
A few months ago, Tina (@teenbug) announced a big, hairy,
audacious goal over at SheLoves Magazine.
Scientists are advancing slowly toward one of the most
audacious goals humans have ever set for themselves: creating artificial life...
Speaking of the Million Cat Challenge: Four years ago, we came together at the exact same conference and challenged ourselves to achieve an
absurdly audacious goal: to save 1 million more shelter cats in five years.
What started as a
seemingly audacious goal has snowballed into a movement that has changed the face of animal sheltering forever.
Yardstick's longer - term objective — what Kureluk calls the company's «big
hairy audacious goal» — is to become the most recognized testing brand in the Commonwealth by 2030.
Ultimately, the big, hairy,
audacious goal of our business is to remove bullying from the Internet.»
Your role as leader is both to push your team members outside of their comfort zones to
achieve audacious goals and to be there to catch them when they fall.
My big, hairy,
audacious goal for 2017 is to figure out and position my self to leave the rat race well before I'm FI.
This part of the process can drastically increase your chances of achieving your
most audacious goals.
It sounds like a serious challenge in our tight economic times, but the charity has reached, and surpassed,
more audacious goals than this in the past.
However, as ever with such awards, fans and the media tend to favour silky skills and
audacious goals over strong defending and clean sheets.
His new project, Adena Farms, has
another audacious goal: shaking up the cattle - ranching business
Over lunch at a sushi bar, the two shaped
an audacious goal: to drive 80 percent of carbon emissions out of the built environment.
If you find yourself with such a scenario, break down your BHAG (Big Hairy
Audacious Goal) into smaller bites you can actually chew.
I'm not going to be one of those people who tell you that in order to achieve
those audacious goals of yours, you need to wake up ridiculously early, but I am suggesting that you start waking up at least two hours before you have to be anywhere.
You've probably even heard of Big Hairy
Audacious Goals (BHAGs)-- those lofty, compelling goals used to incite major change, typically in organizations.
It's generally accepted that Jim Collins coined the phrase «Big Hairy
Audacious Goal» or, as it's touted in meetings all around the world today, the «BHAG.»
Should you follow Jim Collins's advice and set a BHAG (Big Hairy
Audacious Goal)?
The first thing we did was create a plan, and part of the plan was this big, hairy,
audacious goal: to transform Canada through the power of sport.
While a 20 percent sales increase is nice, it certainly does not constitute a Big Hairy
Audacious Goal.
(Poets & Quants)-- David Thomas digs BHAGs — short for big, hairy,
audacious goals.
Of course you should have a really big,
audacious goal.
Together with his physician wife, Priscilla Chan, he has become one of the world's most ambitious philanthropists, most recently pledging $ 3 billion to an initiative with
an audacious goal: to cure, prevent, or make manageable all diseases in their children's lifetime.
A great chief strategist should have incredibly grandiose and
audacious goals, and the balls to go for them, and the ability to ignore and potentially even feed off of any naysayers.
You'll certainly do better than those who are opposed to not setting
an audacious goal in the first place.
«What the tech world and entrepreneurs and VCs, they're not afraid of BHAGs — Big Hairy
Audacious Goals,» says John Wood, a former Microsoft (MSFT) executive and founder and executive chairman of Room to Read.
Philanthropists say tech companies can help with BHAGs (That's Big, Hairy
Audacious Goals) A panel of non-profit and foundation executives urged the technology community to provide educational and philanthropic institutions and others with its entrepreneurial...
It isn't always easy to move from «thought to achievement» on the «big, hairy,
audacious goals» that so many entrepreneurs are fond of setting.
If meeting half of
an audacious goal is considered a win in your book, the strategy I'm suggesting probably isn't a great fit.
It's the routing piece that is the most important; Uber investor Bill Gurley has called the development of the necessary algorithms to make UberPool a success a BHAG: Big Hairy
Audacious Goal, and it's an investment that will be critical for Uber going forward.