JumpLeap Long-Term Strategic Planning Podcast

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 opinions cannot be reconciled easily. Should you intervene or allow it to run its course, even though things are looking like a mess?Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Chris Fox, as we tackle this wicked problem together.I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast.Here is a video of the excerpt from this episode, for free subscribers.To watch the full episode, join JumpLeap as a subscriber. This supports the work I’m doing on long-term strategic planning. It appears below the Subscribe signup box.JumpLeap Long-Term Strategic Planning is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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 tell when that intangible quality is missing. Perhaps, there should be a better way to tell than just raw instinct, but how?Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Alexis Savkin, as we solve this wicked problem together. I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast - https://longtermstrategy.info 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 tell when that intangible quality is missing. Perhaps, there should be a better way to tell than just raw instinct, but how?Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Alexis Savkin, as we solve this wicked problem together.  You can access more of his articles on strategic planning at https://bscdesigner.com.If you are a free subscriber, you can view the excerpt below. Upgrade your membership today for full and instant access to all past and future episodes.Subscribers. here is the full video.

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 reason to be worried, but what should you do about the problem?Tune into this episode to join me in tackling this wicked problem from two perspectives at once…task management and strategic planning.I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the Task Management & Time Blocking Podcast and the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast. 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

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

Your organization is about to conduct its annual strategic planning process. From all indications, this will be another “business as usual” effort, intended to check the box. The time horizon, after all, will only extend for four years, maximum.No-one expects anything out of the ordinary to emerge from it - this is a ritual in which prior performance is improved on by a few percentage points.But are expectations too low? And if this to be the norm each year, should a plan require more than just a single person making simple edits?Is there a problem with this approach?Tune into this episode to join me in tackling this wicked problem. Enjoy this complimentary episode of the podcast.P.S. Remember to register for the Long-Term Strategic Planning Conference here - https://strategyconf.fwconsulting.com 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

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are starting a fresh strategic planning effort but you are concerned that executives are not doing enough to engage stakeholders. From prior experience you know that plans can fall on their face once they are announced.But what should be done to ensure effective implementation? You have heard a number of ideas, but will they fit the culture of your company? This seems to involve more than just completing a successful retreat and printing out copies of a document.You need your own approach to engage stakeholders or risk the whole thing becoming a wasted exercise.Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Anthony Taylor, as we solve this wicked problem together.I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the JumpLeap Strategy Long-Term PodcastWatch the Excerpt below. The full version in video and audio is available to subscribers.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are someone who is already a long-term thinker, working in a non-profit organization. Unlike many, you don’t need to be convinced about the importance of long-term thinking. Somewhere in the past - childhood, early career - you embedded the idea of long-term thinking in your character. And now, in your thinking. Now balancing short and long-term thinking, planning, strategy, vision is a part of your character.But this may be why you are confused. Others around you don’t share this trait. They may believe in long-term vision but not in long-term planning.As such, you feel like a fish out of water - always harping on the need for long-term planning, sometimes asking inconvenient questions.You can’t understand why others don’t share your commitment. And it’s not that you are particularly ESG, sustainable or anything like that. Nor do you come from an old-school. You just sense that the company would make better decisions if it had more than the usual 3-5-year plan to go with a long-term vision.But how do you convince others in the C-Suite, and the board, to think with an additional lens? If they already like the idea of a vision, they might be asking “Why do we need a strategic plan to go with it? Isn’t it just more work?Tune into this episode as I tackle this wicked problem.Watch the Excerpt here. The full version in video and audio is available to subscribers.

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are in the middle of a strategic planning retreat. The ideas are flowing and many of them are of high quality. If only they could all be implemented at the same time.Unfortunately, there is a real world outside waiting, and a choice must be made between some great ideas.But how do you guide the group to the point where they can all get behind a single set of implementable ideas?Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Amie Devero, as we solve this wicked problem in strategic planning together.View the Full Video Below

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comBeware: there are some fundamental misunderstandings being passed around about long-term strategic planning which make it seem impractical. The impact on the C-Suite? Disagreements. Misalignment. And executives who forego long-term planning because “it takes too much time.”Recently overheard: “I can’t argue with the importance of long-term planning. But…