BigHairyGoal
What is it?
The Big Hairy Audacious Goal is a statement of Strategic Intent – the specific result the company will achieve in 10-30 years time. It is the inspiring “Mount Everest” they will climb. It is one of the components of the company vision, as per the the Collins/Porras framework.
Key attributes of a good Big Hairy Audacious Goal are:
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A Big Hairy Goal. Source: Muscle and Fitness. Ever since Roni wrote about her Tough Mudder race, I’ve been thinking about doing one. LEO.org: Your online dictionary for English-German translations. Offering forums, vocabulary trainer and language courses. Also available as App! Achieving a big hairy goal is kind of like climbing a mountain. It's a long and hard process that you must break into stages if you want to stand a chance of reaching the top. Your summit might be publishing a book, generating six figures in revenue, running a marathon or getting a promotion.
- Inspiring – motivates everyone in the company
- Be just possible – not easy, but it could be achieved if the whole company operated at the top of their game. The BHAG must be set with a realistic understanding of what the company can achieve – if it is set with bravado, it is more likely to demotivate
- Fit with company strategy, purpose and values
- Consistent – the BHAG will have no credibility if the business changes it every few years. A BHAG that is big enough to inspire will take a decade of extraordinary effort to deliver
- Shared – not just created by the CEO but ownded and shared broadly across the company
Financial goals do not make good BHAGs – only the shareholders are inspired by these, to everyone else they are just numbers.
In addition to the 10+ year BHAG, the company should also identify their “Base Camp” – where do they need to be in 2 years in order to be on track for their BHAG? The company can then make specific plans to achieve this base camp.
When is it useful?
It can be a very powerful way to communicate a clear direction and level of ambition that aligns the whole company. The management team must be committed to the BHAG, or it will not only have no power, it will reduce credibility.
Don’t force it artificially – when it comes it will immediately feel right.
An Example?
An example from Starbucks is to overtake Coke as the world’s leading brand. It is a good example of fit with company strategy, purpose and values. The Starbucks BHAG is about world-class brand-building – at the heart of their strategy and values, not number of stores or revenue targets. And it will take the company performing at their best for 20 years to reach. The Story of Starbucks’ Journey to find its BHAG.
An example from Sony in the 1960’s and 70’s is to change the image of “Made in Japan” from poor quality to high quality.
A Non-profit example is John F Kennedy’s 1961 speech to Congress:
“I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth………We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.”
More recently, Volkswagen is trying to rebuild its reputation behind the audacious goal of becoming the world leader in Electric Vehicles, with 1m electric car sales by 2025. Not just a growth target, there is deep symbolism behind this to restore its reputation after the diesel emissions crisis:
- Real environmentally friendly, after being exposed as an environmental cheat
- Returning to its original purpose to make a peoples car (Volks = people; Wagen = car)
Let us hope this Big Hairy Audacious Goal succeeds.
I want to know more
Jim Collins invented the term in his great book “Built to Last”. Read it, and explore his website for more insights.
Wikipedia examples
⁃Edit a selected card by pressing the keyboard return-key
⁃Move a card by dragging the selected card.
⁃Connect two cards with click and hold on a card until the cursor changes. Then drag to another card.
- Choose line style with right click on a connection line.
- Add Document, Image or web addresscards by dragging anything into the workspace.
- Scrollthe workareausing a MagicMouse, TrackPad or click and hold in the empty space until the cursor changes. Then drag around.
Open and explore an example document under the App menu Help > Open Example Document.
Learn more tips and features under Help > Big Hairy Goal Help
| Keyboard Shortcut | Command |
| ↑↓←→ | select card in direction of arrow |
| ⌘-↑↓←→ | insert (connected) card in direction of arrow (as applicable) |
| ctrl-⌘-↑↓←→ | move card into direction of arrow (if applicable) |
| ⌫ | Delete selected/hovered over card or delete hovered over connection |
Text Editor
| Keyboard Shortcut | Command |
| ↩︎ | enter and exit cards text editor |
| ⌥-↩︎ | Insert line break within card text editor |
| ⌘-←→ | Move cursor to start/end of text within text editor |
| ⌥-←→ | Move cursor after next word in within text editor |
| esc | Cancel editing text of card |
| ⌘-B | Make selected text Bold. Also See menu Editor > Style. |
Connecting Cards
Connect two cards with click and hold on a card until the cursor changes. Then drag to another card.
| Keyboard Shortcut | Command |
| esc | Cancel while connecting cards |
| ⌥ | Make connection with alternate style |
Moving Cards
| Keyboard Shortcut | Command |
| esc | Cancel while moving cards |
Custom keyboard shortcuts
Note that you can also create custom keyboard shortcuts for any other common action item:Create keyboard shortcuts for appsCards typically contain text or images but also can contain attachments like addresses to webpages or references to files on your hard drive. These attachments are available in two different ways:
Directly within the card. e.g. for a card representing a webpage
Select a card and choose Edit > Add Link…
Or directly paste a webpage address into the workarea by first clicking onto the location where the card should go to and then pasting via Edit > Paste.
A collection of text-fragments, images, or a list of references to web pages or files on your hard drive.
Select a card and choose View > Show Attachments.
Located on the right side of the workarea a pane opens that can contain multiple attachments. Either drag anything described into this area or add any of the predefined containers from the
Note that once you add multiple containers you may reorder them by clicking and holding within the background area of a container until the container starts hovering and then dragging the container to reorder it.
.To create a table group organised in columns, double click the work area to create a new card. Then choose Editor > Group > Append Listed Card. You'll notice two cards stacked on each other. That is what is also known as listed cards. Then choose Editor > Insert > Right (or sure, any other direction). You'll notice a group with the dimension of 2x2. Again choose Editor > Insert > Right to reach the dimension of 3x3.
To move cards either use the menu commands or just drag them around.
To insert cards, either append them using menu commands or double click
the spot where you want to insert a card. This can also be inbetween two cards.To move cards between groups,
Edit > Cut a card, click onto the location in the other group where you want to insert the card and Edit > Paste.To change the type of table groups into columns, rows or table, right click on a group to open the context menu. Then choose from Group > Layout any of the types columns, rows, table.
The following shows more visual examples on what you can do with this feature:
A: you can align a selection of items in a horizontal or vertical layout. Choose editor > align horizonally to stack the selected items in a horizontal layout. Moving one of the items within this alignment group will also move the connected items. Note that each item can only be in one aligment group.
Q: can in zoom out of the workspace to get a better overview?
A: use trackpad two finger gesture to zoom in and out of the workspace
double tap on trackpad to inteligently zoom onto the tapped card, double tap again to zoom out
use comand +/- to zoom in and out
Q: Can I navigate with the keyboard, to select items within the workspace?
A: You can navigate with the arrow-keys to the nearest item in the direction of the pressed arrow key. Holding the shift key extends the current selection to that next item.
Q: How can I move the workspace?
A: Use your MacBook trackpad or click and hold in an empty area of the workspace to pan the workspace around.
BigHairyGoal ist best suited on the first mile of your project. To get a picture on what you want and what is needed to achieve your goal.
But real projects have constraints like time, resources, money and risks. For any larger project like building your home, projecting your mission to Mars or planning your presidential campaign — I highly recommend Merlin Project as the serious next step in your venture.
BigHairyGoal provides the following possibilities to export your workarea or parts of your workarea to external applications:- User File > Export as PDF… to export the complete workarea as a PDF file.
- Select any number of cards and use Edit > Copy to copy the text only contents to your clipboard
- Select any number of cards, hold down the alt key and use Edit > Copy as Image to copy the current selection as an transparent image to your clipboard.
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com.berbie.bighairygoal.log
To access the logfile, choose Go to >Go to directory… in Finder and paste the following in to the text field:
~/Library/Containers/com.berbie.bighairygoal/Data/Library/Application Support/BigHairyGoal/
Finder should now open a new window containing the logfile above.
Move: Simple click on a card and immediately start dragging it.
Connect: Simple click on a card and hold until the arrow cursor turns into a open white cursor, then drag away the connection line.
It may be that you need to practice a bit if you find this a bit tricky. The click and hold duration for connecting cards is based on the system setting for the so called 'double click' delay, that is the time in finder that recognizes clicking a folder twice top open it. (slow clicking twice on a folder will do nothing, faster clicking will open it)
The 'double click' time duration can be set in system preferences: Apple () menu > System Preferences > Universal Access > Mouse & Trackpad > Double Click Speed.
You may increase the time duration until you feel comfortable with it in Big Hairy Goal and Finder double clicking.
➤ OS X El Capitan: Mouse & Trackpad pane of Accessibility preferences
The minimalistic design features help you concentrate on the content and relations, not the formatting. Let's be honest, you can spend hours on formatting your content without adding a single new thought and still feel very productive. And I want to prevent this from you :-)
A: hover over the item and press the return or enter key. make your changes and press the return/enter key again. To insert a line-break into your text, press alt-return or alt-enter
Q: how can I insert a line-break into an item
A: press alt-return
Q: I have selected some items, how can I remove one or more items from the selection?
A: hold the shift key and click on any item to add/remove that item to the selection
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A: select a node and click and hold until the cursor changes and then drag away from it. A new node will be inserted as soon as you release.
Q: how can I insert a new item between two existing
A: double click the connection. Or drag from the middle of a connection to an existing item.
Q: how can I delete items or connections?
A: Hover over an item or connection and then press the delete keyboard key. You can also select a range or items and then press the delete key to delete them.
Q: how can I cancel making a connection when I accidentally dragged away from an item?
A: press the Esc key on your keyboard
Q: can I connect two items with a different kind of connection?
A: keep holding the alt key down while making a connection to get a dotted 'relation' connection. Additional connection styles can be chosen by right-clicking onto a connection.
Q: When I remove an item that has a parent and child item, do I need to reconnect the original flow?
A: no, once you remove an item, the flow is being reestablished.
A: Select one or more cards and move them around.
Q: How can I move an item and all its followup items (sub items)?
A: Select one or more items and the use File > Select including Followups. Then move these around. (or use the context menu on an item)
Q: Can I move items by cutting them out and pasting them somewhere else in my document.
A: Yes, that's an easy way to move several items at once. When you first click on the target location before you paste, the items will be copied to the new location.
A: to group items, select some and choose editor > group. Note that each item can only be in one group at a time.
Q: Can I move a group of items?
A: Click and hold on the coloured background area of a group. Keep holding clicked until a shadow appears. You now can move the group around.
Q: how can I add an item to an existing group
A: Use Edit > cut to cut out an item at its original location, click into the group and use Edit > paste to paste the item into the previously clicked group.
Q: how can I remove an item from an existing group?
A: select the item and use Editor > Remove from Group or the context menu to ungroup the selected items.
A: in Safari, drag an url address from the address bar into BigHairyGoal. Or even drag images.
Tip: cards can also have multiple attachments.
A: select an image or single page PDF file in finder. Edit > Copy in Finder and then click & paste into your big hairy goal workspace to insert that image at the clicked location. Or use the system screenshot shortcut cmd-ctrl-shift 4 to select a range in any application like safari and then paste the screenshot into your workspace.
Q: I have added images but they are being displayed smaller than the original, can I see the image in the original size?
A: Select an image item and press the space key to view the image in the MacOS Quicklook panel. Select more than one image to browse all of them within the Quicklook panel.
Tip: cards can also have multiple image attachments.
A: Hover over or select one or more tasks and use Edit > Copy (cmd-c).
Q: to copy an items text content, do I need to enter edit mode and copy the selected text?
A: no, you can just hover over an item and copy the text using cmd-c
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