Well, we're trying this (to some extent) in this country with respect to health care (and it's long overdue), with the result that the teabaggers are all over it ...
Carleton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pat Naughtin" <[email protected]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2010 1:53:30 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern Subject: [USMA:46816] BHAG – Big Hairy Audacious Goal Dear All, In the 1980s and 1990s I often heard that major international companies aspired to have a ' Big Hairy Audacious Goal ' (BHAG pronounced Bee-Hag). Often they were stunned when they achieved great progress by aiming for something that when first put forward seemed to be quite impossible. Does anyone in the metrication community have such a BHAG or have you heard of anyone who has attempted this approach. Cheers, Pat Naughtin Author of the ebook, Metrication Leaders Guide, that you can obtain from http://metricationmatters.com/MetricationLeadersGuideInfo.html PO Box 305 Belmont 3216, Geelong, Australia Phone: 61 3 5241 2008 Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA. Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST, and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. S ee http://www.metricationmatters.com for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected] or to get the free ' Metrication matters ' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter to subscribe.
