JumpLeap Long-Term Strategic Planning Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Today, your executive team fills SWOT boxes in 90 minutes and calls it strategy. Tomorrow’s competitive landscape will punish that superficiality mercilessly. Chris Fox predicts the emerging standard: double-barreled insight generation that combines intellectual analysis with visceral pattern recognition. T...

You’re in a strategy retreat. You see an opening to shift the conversation—a strategic insight you know could change the trajectory. You speak up with confidence. And then... blank looks. Awkward silence. The room moves on as if you hadn’t spoken. It doesn’t matter if you’re the CEO, the board chair, or an ambitious director. The frustration is identical: you have strategic clarity, you know the f...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your company is bleeding. The tariff just hit. Your board wants answers. You have 48 hours. But sometimes the brutal truth is that the warning signs were there 20-years ago. In this episode, Marcel Melzer stops the scroll with his contrarian claim: strategic decisions should take 48 hours, not months. His “...

Transcript 00:00:01 Stop me if you’ve been in Bob’s position. Every strategist learns the frameworks. Porto five forces, blue ocean strategy, and SWAT analysis. And we assume great strategy comes from great frameworks. So how Schultz of Starbucks fame, he knew all of the frameworks, but he didn’t transform Starbucks or any of them. In 1983, Schulz visited Milan. He walked into an express bar. He s...

Picture two teams in your company, six months apart. The first team is drowning. They have 47 “strategic initiatives” on their list, no clear way to prioritize, and every meeting devolves into debates about resources. Morale is terrible, and nobody can articulate what they’re really trying to accomplish. Fast forward six months: the same team, but now they’re energized, focused, and can explain th...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your organization has 37 brilliant projects. You have bandwidth for maybe 5. Now what? This is the reality facing leaders everywhere: expensive master plans that deliver impressive lists of initiatives but zero guidance on which ones to actually pursue. Meanwhile, your CEO expects magic, your budget is maxe...

Unmasking the Strategy Success Trap: Why Booms Lead to Busts! How should your company react to amazing success? Join us for a spirited conversation diagnosing the fatal strategic missteps of companies that went through unearned booms during COVID-19. We reveal why giants like Peloton and Fiverr abandoned their profitable, long-term business models to chase massive, temporary demand. We explore how...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You have a hunger for game-changing results . As a CEO, board member, or strategic planner, you aspire to produce big results. While you know methods that work, you still find yourself drifting back into short-term thinking in these tumultuous days. Without daily activities guiding you toward a True North —...

Tired of staff surveys on company vision and corporate strategy showing disengagement despite your best efforts? You're not alone. Most leaders think they need to be more "motivational" - but that's backwards. The real breakthrough? Creating systems where people motivate themselves. And AI is making this easier than ever. Join us for a short presentation where we'll share real experiments from lea...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You are the champion of a long-term strategic plan. However, you understand some of the disciplines required to make strategic plans implementable - program management and change management. But as you try to educate others on the importance of these disciplines you find yourself alone. They just don’t get...

Let’s imagine for a moment that you are a citizen or resident of the USA. You love the country and especially the vision of the founding fathers. However, you are distressed by the degree of the political divide. It has hijacked popular attention. People seem to hate each other. Is there a way to find inspiration beyond the current uncertainty? Can leaders possibly come together if only they took...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You are leading the development of a strategic plan in an organization. The company has a very transactional culture in which staff members are doing the minimum required to get by. However, the company needs to develop a game-changing strategic plan to stay relevant in its industry. You are concerned that...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You are convinced that your company or client needs a game-changing strategy. But you have also worked with them to see that their thinking is pedestrian. Ordinary. Run of the mill. Business as usual. You realise that one element which is lacking is a set of powerful insights. Without them, you’ll always be...

Your company is built on systems - a whole bunch of systems which are intertwined. Understanding how they work together is critical for any strategic changes you want to make. However, you have also seen system diagrams. They look awful, with too much detail, and don’t capture the essence of what happens at any level of the organization. Plus, they take forever to build. So you know you need to ha...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You are a facilitator or sponsor of strategic planning offsites. Recently, you noticed that it’s become easier than ever to gather pages of interesting and pertinent information about client companies. You’re pleased…this is a far cry from the days when you were forced to walk in empty-handed because the co...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your company is committed to engaging staff in implementing the next strategic plan. Like most, you realize that their involvement is important. But the company is big…large enough that you can’t talk to everyone. Not effectively. But you’d like to give each person a chance to contribute. And be heard. How...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Why You Should Listen to This Episode of the Jump Leap Long-Term Strategy Podcast Picture this: you’re in the middle of a critical strategic planning retreat. Your team has crafted bold visions for the future, but now comes the toughest part—choosing the path forward. Limited resources, competing priorities...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Have you ever seen strategic master plans gather dust on a shelf? Or, have you ever poured your heart into a master plan only to see it fall flat? Strategic Master Plans make sense but they rarely work in practice. If this echoes your experience, don’t miss this episode. We’ll tackle the reasons why these e...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com What happens when leadership goes off-course and starts undermining the very culture that made your company successful?  In this thought-provoking episode, Francis Wade teams up with Barry Eustance, an expert in aviation and corporate transformation, to tackle a problem that many executives face but few kno...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your company has a problem implementing its strategic plans. On a given day, it devotes all its attention to emergency issues, and sets aside the contents of the last strategic plan. There are no lazy, or dumb people involved - your colleagues are well-intended. They know they need to be proactive. But when...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your company is in the middle of a strategic planning project. Things are going according to plan but there are several competing schools of thought about the future of the organization. In discussions, voices are being raised as competing ideas are shared. You are beginning to feel nervous because the opin...

Your company has a long history of putting together strategic plans. And you have diligently read them all in a search to understand the intentions of prior leaders. But as you look them over you are concerned. There are lots of todo lists, action items, and budgets, but the underlying plan seems to lack something important - a strategy. You can’t quite explain why this is the case, but you can te...

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Your company has a long history of putting together strategic plans. And you have diligently read them all in a search to understand the intentions of prior leaders. But as you look them over you are concerned. There are lots of todo lists, action items, and budgets, but the underlying plan seems to lack so...

You are in charge of implementing your company’s new strategic plan. It includes some brilliant new ideas which should shake up your industry, and even introduce the world to a new category of products and services. But you are a bit wary because prior strategic plans barely made it off the PowerPoint pages. They weren’t implemented due to a common complaint - no-one had the time. You have every r...

Your organization has crafted a vision for the future, winning the approval of a wide array of stakeholders. But how do you keep that momentum alive beyond the initial excitement and actually deliver results? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com/subscribe