Vision 2025: The BHAG Missionary Conundrum
excerpt…. The BHAG Missionary Conundrum: Is Measuring Progress on our BHAGs Causing a Full Circle in Modern Missions? — A Look Back at Vision 2025.
Are church and mission leaders misusing and abusing our Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG)? This BHAG concept was first introduced in the book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies (Jim Collins and Jerry Porras, 1994). Collins and Porras commonly abbreviate it as BHAG, pronounced “bee hag.”
A BHAG is a long-term goal that is bold and compelling enough to inspire employees of an organization to get behind it and act on it. We Board members need to ask ourselves: “Are the missionaries who are tasked with implementing our Board-adopted BHAGs on board with us?”