The Coast Guard: Foresight in Action
Two full-time employees and $500,000 annually transformed 50,000-person Coast Guard from world-class responders into anticipators—less than one penny per $100 budget delivering 23 years of structural impact. Post-9/11 realization: reacting isn't enough when the world rewrites rules faster than playbooks update.
Ep 32 - From Idea Overload to Execution - A Strategists Guide to Prioritisation
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 maxed out, and that critical board meeting is in two weeks.
Navigating Innovation and Creating an Invincible Company
Innovation coach reveals why most companies waste years building products nobody wants. Nick Himowicz unpacks the "Kill Your Startup in 90 Minutes" workshop—designed to destroy bad ideas before they drain resources. The core problem: founders spend months on product development without proper customer interviews, then sweat through desperate validation pitches asking "please tell us you like it."
Hard to Engage Staff on Vision/Strategy? In Your Sleep w/AI
Strategy dies in the gap between communication and activation. Two strategy consultants reveal why traditional approaches—town halls, PowerPoint decks, cascading KPIs—leave employees with metrics but no context for daily decisions. The problem isn't that CEOs don't communicate enough; it's that strategy never becomes alive in the minds of frontline workers making real trade-offs.
The Commoncog Method Used by StratCinema
Warren Buffett's secret teaching method revealed—how he transformed Katherine Graham from self-described "doormat wife" into legendary CEO delivering 22.3% compound annual returns over 28 years. The technique: calibration case method using antique financial statements.
Seeing What's Next: Using Theories of Innovation to Predict
Clayton Christensen's protégé reveals how theory transforms guesswork into foresight. Scott D. Anthony unpacks the frameworks from "Seeing What's Next"—showing why Western Union dismissed Bell's telephone as a toy, why Tesla confounds traditional disruption theory, and how law firms are being dismantled despite record profits today.
Why Strategy Documents Lack Insights
🚀 Tired of generic, uninspiring strategic plans that go nowhere? Most companies fill out strategy templates year after year—only to end up with the same mediocre results. Why? Because real strategy requires deep insights, not just checklists.
Shared Value as Corporate Strategy
**Why Corporate Strategy Leaders Rewatch This 38-Minute Michael Porter Shared Value Framework** Shared value profit promise: "Shared value goes beyond being generous goes beyond avoiding harm stopping things counterproductive, we can actually add value in business societal issues meeting most important societal needs, key that unlocks added value actually doing what businesses do approaching task using business model making profit, if tackle societal needs business model generates profit achieved most powerful force ever get changing world, can scale serve millions billions people solve problems not just make little band-aids actually solve most important problems world."
Architects of the Future - the SHIFT Method
**Why Strategic Foresight Practitioners Rewatch This 64-Minute SHIFT Method Framework** Shell oil crisis preparation success: "Shell back 1970s while most oil companies focused forecasting prices optimizing productions did something different, built detailed scenarios different possible futures, one scenario explored what would happen oil producing nations suddenly restricted supply pressure western governments, when 73 oil crisis hit OPEC imposed embargo oil prices quadrupled overnight Shell was ready, had contingency plans flexible supply chains strategic reserves thrived while competitors scrambled."
Shaping the Future with Strategic Thinking - Strategi Minds Ep 22
**Why Super Adaptability Strategists Rewatch This 67-Minute Max McKeown Innovation Method** Max McKeown defines strategy as "shaping the future, consciously using available means to achieve desirable ends"—created "speed strategy framework, one-page tool clients throw on wall suddenly in 15 minutes got sense where gaps are."
Strategic Minds: The Power of Frameworks as Disruptive Catalysts
**Why Strategic Framework Strategists Rewatch This 53-Minute Jeffrey Moore Zone Methodology** Jeffrey Moore author of "Crossing the Chasm" and "Zone to Win" explains "each zone advocates for different riskreward tradeoff"—productivity zone "relatively low risk modest rewards but get efficiency, transformation zone super high risk potentially very high reward, performance zone more risk than productivity want to grow take competitive risk, incubation zone very high risks but in contained way actually low risk."
The Rise of Airbnb: From Airbeds to Billions
**Why Timing-Based Startup Strategists Rewatch This 8-Minute Airbnb Crisis Origin Story** Airbnb founders "rent increased by 25% due next month, for 2 unemployed design students looming deadline would almost certainly make them homeless"—launched "AirbedAndBreakfast.com for $80 offered designers place to stay for weekend's event."