JumpLeap Long-Term Strategic Planning Podcast
This podcast guides business leaders in creating long-term, game-changing strategic plans that inform daily actions and help reach critical milestones. It explores principles and best practices of long-term strategic planning to transcend short-termism and create long-term value. The host, Francis Wade, offers insights on inspiring colleagues to achieve breakthrough results that are also good for the planet. Full episodes are available via a paid subscription.
Episodes
Ep 38 - The Bellhop and the Sardines w/Amie Devero
Your company knows that it needs to move quickly once a corporate strategy has been developed, to get the document in the hands of the staff.But what does it mean to “get it into their hands?” Send them a pdf? Get them to watch a video? Attend a town hall? Attend a briefing from their manager, after she has received her briefing?This is a massive problem and here today to apply an AI-driven soluti
Ep 37 Why Global Conflict Has Your C-Suite Knee-Jerking Strategy Once Again
Your company prides itself on its long-term thinking, planning and acting. But now that times are difficult due to the outbreak of a war, you are wary of what might happen given your experience of COVID, supply chain breakdowns and sudden tariffs.During these extreme events, you saw C-Suite executives delve into the weeds, doing the work of managers. As their time horizons shortened, they ignored
Ep 36 - Why SWOT Isn’t the Problem: How We Use It Is
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comToday, 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. Th
Ep 35 - Your Strategic Stagnation Isn't a Framework Problem—It's a Story Problem
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 fr
Ep 34 How Do Leaders Make Decisions When There's No Time and No Certainty?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 “dec
Strategic Fluency - Frameworks or Stories?
Transcript00:00:01Stop 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 saw
Ep 33 - From Laundry-list, Wishlist or Checklist to a Game-Changing Strategy
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 thei
Ep 32 - From Idea Overload to Execution - A Strategist's Guide to Prioritization
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 maxed o
Live on Substack #3: Unmasking the Strategy Success Trap
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 th
Ep 31 - Escaping the Short-Term Trap
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou 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—a p
Hard to engage staff on vision/strategy? Do it in your sleep with AI.
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 leade
Ep 30 Implementation Issues | A Community’s Role in Strategic Change
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou 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 it
Ep 29 USA: Stuck in a Divide
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 a
Ep 28 Strategizing Around a Toxic Culture
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou 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 st
Ep 27 - Missing Insights | How to Find Breakthrough Strategies in the C-Suite
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou 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 s
Ep 26 - Seth Godin - Stuck in Stale Strategy? Seeing Systems Holding You Back
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 have
Ep 25 - Drowning in Data | How AI Can Rescue Strategy
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou 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 com
Ep 24 Employees Want In! | How AI Fixes the Participation Gap w Dan Bruder
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 can
Ep 23 - Conflicting Visions - the Invisible Threat that Unites Goals
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comWhy You Should Listen to This Episode of the Jump Leap Long-Term Strategy PodcastPicture 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,
Ep 22 - Strategy Across Silos | Master Planning Redefined
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comHave 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 effo
Ep 21 Navigating Cultural Drift: Fixing Leadership and Strategy Before It’s Too Late
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comWhat 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 know
Ep 20- Shifting from Weak Proactive to Strong Pre-Emptive Strategic Planning
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour 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 it
Ep 19 - Enduring the Messy Stages of Strategic Planning
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 opinio
Ep 18 - What if your strategy document is missing actual strategic thinking?
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
Ep 18 - When a Written Strategy Document Lacks a Strategy
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 some
Ep 17 - How to Find Time for Strategic Planning
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 rea
Reversing Neglect: The Case of Vale Royal and Vision 2030 Jamaica
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
Ep 16.5 Is There Actually a Valid “Just Keep Things Going” Strategy?
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 a
Ep 16 Getting Deep Stakeholder Buy-In to Strategic Plans
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
Ep 15 How to Convince Colleagues Your Company Needs a Long-Term Strategy Along with Its Big Vision
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 t
Ep 14 - Making Hard Choices Between Strategies
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
Ep 13.5 MB #9 How to Add 25 Years to Your Strategic Plan in 4 Extra Hours
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
Ep 13 - How to Convince Colleagues Your Company Needs a Long-Term Vision-Strategy
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 for-profit company. Unlike many, you don’t need to be convinced about the importance of long-term thinking. Somewhere early in the past - childhood, early career - you embedded the idea in your thinking. Now balancing short and long-term thinki
Ep 12 - Getting Executives to Think Strategically
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are attending a strategic planning offsite and notice that the room has been quiet. Apart from the usual contributions from the CEO and experienced members of the C-Suite, the others are silent.When they do speak up, it seems as if they are in a regular department meeting, addressing daily concerns. They
Ep 11: Season 2 Opener to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast
Perhaps you think it’s good for the planet. Or maybe you believe it’s the way to permanent competitive advantage. Or long-term value for stakeholders. Or perhaps…you just want a good challenge for some reason, and a desire to move the needle in a sustainable way.But you have probably noticed that leaders of organizations - for-profit and non-profit alike - have a hard time thinking and planning fo
Ep 10.5 How to Conduct a Game-Changing 15-30-Year Strategic Planning Retreat
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou're someone who is looking ahead to your next strategic plan. Why? You're looking at the process, the activities that go into it, and the final outcome. And you're wondering, is it too much to ask, or to expect that this one be a game-changer? You're familiar with companies that have launched transformati
Unraveling Strategy Amnesia
Have you ever left a strategic planning retreat feeling invigorated, only to find that the excitement fizzles out? Despite the initial enthusiasm and belief in the positive change that was about to ensue, weeks later, the essence of those profound discussions becomes a distant memory.The baffling reality is this: a gathering of bright, dedicated individuals, all ardently striving to make a meaning
Ep 10 - MB #8 Why Today’s BHAGs Need to Be More than Impossible
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou have read the “Problem with the SDG Goals” article written on this website, and picked up on the idea that having too many over-the-top Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAGs) creates issues. (SDG stands for Sustainable Development Goals.) In other words, a vision intended to inspire people can do the very opp
Why the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Aren’t Working
You are someone who is aware of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced in 2015 by the United Nations. Their value is not in question - they are objectives the entire world hopes to realize.But recently, Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared that the SDGs are on the path to failure.Launching a special edition of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) progress report, he warne
Ep 9 The Problem with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Audio
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are someone who is aware of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) announced in 2015 by the United Nations. Their value is not in question - they are objectives the entire world hopes to realize.But recently, Secretary General Antonio Guterres declared that the SDGs are on the path to failure.Launch
Ep 8 The Hidden Impact of CSRD on Strategic Planning - Audio
The article is available as a written newsletter on the JumpLeap Newsletter.You have heard of CSRD (the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), at least in passing. As a new reporting requirement, it calls for your company to submit annual non-financial information, starting in just a few years’ time.As someone who cares about long-term environmental and social impacts, you like where this
The Surprising Way CSRD Impacts Strategic Planning
You have heard of CSRD (the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), at least in passing. As a new reporting requirement, it calls for your company to submit annual non-financial information, starting in just a few years’ time.As someone who cares about long-term environmental and social impacts, you like where this is going.But you are concerned that it will turn into a bureaucratic slog, i
Ep 7 - MB#7 - Helping Stakeholders to Understand Your Strategic Plan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comI led my first strategic planning retreat as a stop-gap measure.“Staff are running around like crazy - in all sorts of directions!” This was my client’s complaint. Was it directed at me?Because the culture-change effort we had delivered was effective. Highly motivated participants were now creating projects
Making Hard Choices
Your company has once again begun to look to the future. It’s shaken off the post-COVID blues and must now position itself in its industry with a fresh strategy. But all of your executives are not convinced that hard choices must be made. How can you persuade them? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit longtermstrategy
Ep 6- MB#6 - Not Towards the Future But Back From It
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour strategic planning team has defined a long-term vision of the future. This is no mere vision statement - it includes lots of metrics. Proud of its accomplishment, it doesn’t take long for a concern to develop. What if the vision of the future isn’t realistic?How can you ensure it’s not just a figment of
Ep 5 - MB#5 - How Does Your Team Generate a Precise Future Vision?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour strategic planning team has chosen a long-term target horizon - let’s say that it encompasses 22 years. Following the EndPoint method, they now look forward to the next step. Finally, some brainstorming around preferred futures is about to begin. Fun!But what is a good way to start? Is there a structure
Ep 4 - MB#4 - What’s the First Order of Business in Your Next Strategic Planning Retreat?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comBecome a “Fair Witness”: In his book, Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert HeinleinRichard Rumelt / The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists (thecruxbook.com)
Ep 3 - MB#3 Why Organizations Need to Stop Putting Lipstick (i.e. ESG Goals) on a Pig
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou want to do the right thing by the planet, to make sure your business isn’t doing more harm than good. That means you want to run it in a sustainable way.But the suggestions you hear seem difficult to implement. They won’t fit easily into your business and it would be hard to convince stakeholders that th
MB #2 Which Time Horizon is Best? Short or Long-Term? Why?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou may be in a quandary. Should your team put together a long-term strategy, even though recent times have been difficult and chaotic? You must make a decision because it affects the way you design your upcoming strategic planning retreat.But it’s not easy. You are hearing conflicting advice. If you aren't
Audio Version - Ban the Swot from Your Retreat
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Ep 1 - MB#1 - Let's Begin at the Very End of Your Next Retreat
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour next strategic planning offsite is meant to “move the needle” - to make a measurable difference in your business. You know that some specific things need to happen before time runs out and everyone leaves to catch a flight or drive home. But apart from the obvious steps, what are the nuances you must ad
What Happens When Vision Statements Lose Their Potency
You want to engage your staff around a bright, hopeful future. At some point in the past, a two-paragraph vision statement did the trick. But lately, it’s gone stagnant. What should you do to restore the inspiration it once provided? Should you change the words, or try something different?To read prior columns visit https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss t
How to create and dominate business categories
In your company’s strategic planning activities, you hope to make more than incremental improvements. Instead, your team dreams of brilliant decisions and breakthrough results. But are these a matter of luck? While fortune plays a role, Digicel’s introduction to the mobile telephony market is an example of a new competency: “category design.”Christopher Lochhead would be proud of Digicel. He belon
Why people analytics isn’t just for HR
Your company is aware of people analytics. It wants to use these techniques to increase productivity. But it’s not clear who should champion this transformation: HR or another unit?In companies across the world, COVID has accelerated the call for data-driven innovation. Consequently, managers in your organization are concerned. Productivity has fallen due to work-from-home arrangements, but are th
Learning Long-Term Planning from Tennis’ Williams Sisters
You know your company should be crafting long-term, post-COVID plans. Why? The pandemic has created once-in-a-lifetime opportunities waiting to be exploited. But you have been so busy just keeping the organization alive that you either have half-a-plan, or none at all. Should you make the investment in strategic planning now even though the times remain turbulent?To read my columns, visit https://
Strategic Plan Implementation Reset
Your company is considering its next strategic planning retreat. But the last real one, held just before COVID, didn’t anticipate a pandemic. So, the plan had to be shelved. Now, attendees are reluctant to schedule a new session. Do you give up on the idea?Check out my past column on strategy and productivity at https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this
Stop Boring Your Staff with Small Goals
You’re a corporate leader who wants to inspire your organization. But you aren’t naturally charismatic, nor are you famous. Is there a way to energize and motivate stakeholders who must play a part in the transformation you envision?A startling number of CEOs forget what it was like to be inspired in a manner that leads to hard work. They think of themselves as unicorns, born to lead. It’s a myste
Email is not a Nuisance - It’s Your Job
You are forced to deal with email every single day, most of it arriving at odd moments. At the same time, you need to be effective, but it seems that there’s invariably a slew of messages getting in the way. You want the problem to go away so that you can just focus on doing your job. This is a common sentiment, but is this frame of mind a help or hindrance?To see other articles and columns, see
Is Your Company being Led By a Great Strategist?
Each day you go into the office, you want to be inspired by your work. Elevated by what your organization can accomplish. But if that’s not your daily experience, does the quality of strategic leadership have something to do with it?Check out my prior columns at https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo
Why CEO’s need to think like Chief Learning Officers
As the top leader, it’s your responsibility to create sound succession plans. But how do you ensure that there is a pipeline of leadership talent available at all levels, such as the board and executive suite? Check out my other columns at https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit longtermstra
Why useful strategic plans require deep handshake agreements
Have you ever played a part in crafting a useless strategic plan? You thought it was a good product, but it ended up languishing on the shelf or in unread email. However, you believed in the process followed, but something was missing… maybe from the final step which condemned the entire plan to the scrap heap.Click here to read my past articles from the Gleaner newspaper: https://blog.fwconsultin
Stop Conflating Budget with Strategy
Each year, managers in your company sit down to devise budgets for the next twelve months. As a participant in the process, you see that each department’s spending reflects certain priorities. Where do these come from? Are some correct in calling them “strategic”? Should they be reconciled in some way?Click below to read all my past articles.https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode.
Check calendar or read email? The right pattern of effective work habits
In general, you want to be responsive to those who wish to reach you. Consequently, each morning, before doing anything else, you scan your email inbox for new messages. However, if you have ever questioned the wisdom of this habit, your concerns are justified. The most effective professionals refuse to process email first. Instead, they start the day differently: they plan the time in their calen
Change the Perception of HR in Strategic Planning
For years, HR Professionals have lobbied: they must have a seat at the strategic planning table. Now, many companies agree. However, HR’s impact in retreats has not matched those of other functions. What can your company do to ensure talent management isn’t an after-thought? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit longte
Stop Ignoring the Next Tech Disruption
Your industry may be the same as it was 50 years ago. Change comes slowly, if at all, so your future appears to be secure. But you’re worried, anyway. As you look around the world you see entire sectors in upheaval. New technology has led to companies being “Netflixed” - completely destroyed with sudden speed by outside innovations.Check our prior article from my Gleaner column - https://blog.fwco
How to Sell Disruption to Company Executives
You’re the member of an executive suite who has battled the COVID-19 pandemic alongside your colleagues. As the world adjusts to accommodate the virus, it’s high time to look beyond the mere survival of your company. But…surprise! Not everyone on the senior team or board agrees this is urgent. Do you garner full support first or power ahead, hoping laggards will catch up later?Check out my past co
Five-Year Plans Aren’t Strategic. They’re Dangerous
Almost all corporate plans cover the next five years. However, many companies go not a single month further. In other words, they survive on one five-year plan after another. If you have ever questioned the wisdom of this practice, keep listening.To read my past articles for the Jamaica Gleaner, click here. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acce
Managers not adjusting well to remote work
As a manager, you may be in trouble. In the past two years, new ways of remote working have come out of nowhere and the debate is on: should you resume face-to-face working? Part of you wants work to be efficient, but another part hopes that everyone will come back to the office. Is this an unreasonable ask?Check out my past columns at https://blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you
Interview with Balanced Scorecard Creator Dr. Robert Kaplan
What advice would a strategy expert like Dr. Robert Kaplan give to Caribbean companies? He's been to the region several times, but his exact words haven't been captured.Until this interview at the HRMATT Conference of 2015.As a fellow speaker, I had the opportunity to sit down with the creator of the strategy map and balanced scorecard during one of the breaks. It wasn't our first conversation, bu
Thinking Strategically in the Future and the Present
As a manager, you may find it hard to engage in fruitful discussions about the future. You are able to speculate informally over lunch, but be unable to plan strategically in a formal session. You sense that this needs to change, but how? Where will this new skill-set come from? To see a catalog of all my past columns, visit blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss
Quit Complaining About Prior Strategies
Do your managers complain about key strategies their predecessors failed to craft? It seems as if they have all the answers, but you suspect that they may be kidding themselves. The truth is, they may not be very different. If so, how should you intervene so they don’t handicap future generations with more poor decisions? To see a catalog of all my past columns, visit blog.fwconsulting.com This is
Resolving the discrepancy between male and female work ethic
Have you ever wondered whether there is a real difference between the performance ethic of men and women? You don’t want to be biased, but if all things are not equal, it would be silly to pretend as if they are. Here is my experience - not a law or rule by any means, but some more data for you to consider. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get acces
How to manage a COVID-era ineffective employee
Is there at least one staff member in your office whose lack of productivity has been exposed by COVID? Before the pandemic, you had a favorable opinion, in general, of the person’s performance. But once they began to work from home, their output plummeted. How should you intervene? Is it worth the time and effort? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or g
Writing Strategic Plans an Inside Job
Can someone from outside your company create your organization’s strategic plan? After all, if your future depends on the quality of this document, shouldn’t you hire an expert to do the job? At first glance, this makes sense, but as you contract with an outsider to execute the task, you may have misgivings. To see a catalog of all my past columns, visit blog.fwconsulting.com This is a public epis
Why ”Short-Term Strategy” is a Misnomer
Have you ever been stuck in a strategic planning session, complaining to yourself: “This is nothing more than a continuation of old, tired thoughts?” You need to intervene and somehow shift the level of thinking. But you don’t know what to say, and you certainly don’t want to make things worse. Do you suffer in silence? Or attempt to provide some leadership?For past issues from 2010, visit https:/
Strategy: Intentions vs. Predictions
As a leader of your company, you may notice managers and board members struggling to be strategic. Trapped in low-level thinking, they habitually think micro when macro is needed. How do you help them craft inspiring visions that shift the way your organization operates? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit longterm
WhatsApp Groups for Employee Engagement
In today’s COVID era, local companies have seen a dramatic rise in the use of WhatsApp groups among staff. It’s been a love/hate relationship for most, but online groups have become a critical channel of communication. Is your organization boosting employee engagement via these groups, or sitting by hoping the fad will die off? This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other sub
A Perfect Memory for Your ToDos
Like most people, do you share the challenge of keeping track of your to-dos, especially during the holiday season? You may think it has something to do with your personality, but…surprise: it doesn’t. Here’s why. 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
Why CEO’s Want HR to Transform Itself
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