{"id":222,"date":"2010-02-27T16:44:26","date_gmt":"2010-02-27T22:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=222"},"modified":"2010-05-12T15:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T21:04:55","slug":"47-what-the-heck-is-a-bhag-bee-hag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=222","title":{"rendered":"#47: What the Heck is a BHAG (Bee-hag)!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What is a BHAG and why do you need one?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In my last post I discussed the film <a title=\"Julie and Julia site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.julieandjulia.com\/\">Julie &amp; Julia <\/a>and how each of the main characters had\u00a0a BHAG. A couple of readers wanted to learn a bit more about this and how having one can help you achieve your Visions of Success. So, here goes\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The phrase <strong>Big Hairy Audacious Goal <\/strong>(BHAG, pronounced Bee-hag) was proposed by <a title=\"Jim Collins website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jimcollins.com\/\">Jim Collins <\/a>and <a title=\"Jerry Porras\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jerry_Porras\">Jerry Porras <\/a>in their 1996 article entitled <em>Building Your Company\u2019s Vision<\/em>. A BHAG encourages companies and individuals to define visionary goals that are more strategic. Collins and Porras define a BHAG as a form of\u00a0vision statement \u201c\u2026an audacious 10-to-30-year goal to progress towards and envisioned future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A true BHAG is clear and compelling and serves as a unifying focal point of effort, and acts as a clear catalyst for action. Your BHAG also clearly defines a finish line, so you can know when you\u2019ve achieved your goal.\u00a0 According to Collins &amp; Porras (1996) having this is helpful in terms of helping you achieve your Vision because people like to shoot for a finish line.<\/p>\n<p>The point of having a BHAG also reminds me of the expression <strong>\u201cshoot for the moon, because even if you fall short you will land among the stars.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.surveymonkey.com\/s.aspx?sm=owJw5CixCl3pXrJR0lPIEg_3d_3d \">Vision Quest Survey Report<\/a><\/strong>: as of today, <strong>153<\/strong> women have completed it!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(first posted 8.22.09)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a BHAG and why do you need one? In my last post I discussed the film Julie &amp; Julia and how each of the main characters had\u00a0a BHAG. A couple of readers wanted to learn a bit more &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/?p=222\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,132,4,7],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bhag","tag-success","tag-success-coaching","tag-vision-quest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicolecutts.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}