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. This episode exposes what elite strategists do differently: they've built pattern libraries from accumulated case exposure that allow them to deploy diagnostic stories, pattern stories, and origin stories in the moment—not in PowerPoint decks afterward.
Ep 34 - How Do Leaders Make Decisions When There's No Time and No Certainty?
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.
Ep 33 - From Laundrylist, 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.
Monetizing Expert: Your Pricing Is Killing Your Startup
Pricing isn't an afterthought—it's a strategic weapon most founders deploy too late. The counterintuitive reality: testing willingness-to-pay before building product prevents the billion-dollar mistake of training customers to expect more for less.
Ep 30 Implementation Issues | A Community’s Role in Strategic Change
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.
Ep 31 - Escaping the Short-Term Trap
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.
Ep 29 USA: Stuck in a Divide | How Future-Back Strategy Restores Progress
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 long-term view of the country, and the world?
Ep 26 - Seth Godin - Stuck in Stale Strategy? Seeing Systems Which Hold You Back
Seth Excerpt