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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—a preferred long-term destination—you run the risk of being sucked into the 24-hour news cycle or latest drama.

How do you build the strategic muscles necessary to withstand even daily shocks and surprises?

The opposite of conventional strategy is true. Stop chasing short-term survival; outsiders and technology cannot save you from constant disruption. Conventional wisdom demanding “twice the results in half the time” is fundamentally flawed. Real game-changing success requires robust long-term strategic muscle.

We expose the 25 fatal obstacles infecting C-suites with short-term thinking, providing definitive ‘obstacle knowledge’ so you can become a robust, different kind of strategist who can preemptively design for disruption.

Tune in to join me in tackling this wicked problem. I’ll share the approach we took to designing the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2025 held in June.

I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast.

P.S. Here’s a LLM prompt you can copy and paste into an LLM to deepen your understanding:

Act as a strategic planning consultant. I just listened to a podcast about long-term strategic planning. Here’s the core insight I learned: “Big results need years. Long time frame and big results go together. If you try to commit to big goals on short time frames, it doesn’t work.”

My current strategic planning challenge is: [DESCRIBE IN ONE SENTENCE YOUR BIGGEST STRUGGLE WITH LONG-TERM THINKING IN YOUR ORGANIZATION].

Based on this insight, identify three specific symptoms in my organization that indicate we’re stuck in short-term thinking. Then suggest one concrete conversation starter I can use this week to begin reframing our strategic discussions.

P.P.S. Want more? For subscribers, I have generated at least 5 more prompts, available below the paywall.

Show Notes

https://strategyconf.fwconsulting.com/conference-topics-2025/ – The full list of 25 Obstacles

The full video is available below for subscribers. So are the other LLM Prompts mentioned above.

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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 it.

And if they continue to not understand it, the strategic plan could be a failure just because of the way it’s defined, and because it’s missing important perspectives.

Tune into this episode to hear from me and my special guest, Lisa Carlin from The TurboChargers, as we tackle and try to solve this wicked problem together.

Show Notes

In this episode, Francis Wade and Lisa Carlin discuss the complexities of long-term strategic planning, emphasizing the importance of change management and project management in ensuring successful strategy execution. They explore the disconnects often found in organizations between different stakeholders and the need for a collaborative approach to strategy development.

Lisa introduces her framework for effective strategy execution, which includes a focus on community and the integration of various perspectives. The conversation highlights the necessity of transforming strategy into actionable plans while maintaining a long-term vision amidst a rapidly changing environment.

* 2 day strategy execution bootcamp https://theturbochargers.com/strategy-execution-bootcamp/

* CEO Guide: Boost Your Productivity with AI Tools for Strategic Initiatives

* 5 Future Trends in Change Management

* Discover your capability for strategy execution and transformation. Calculate your free Transformation Success Score

* Subscribe to Turbocharge Weekly. Join over 7,000 business leaders and innovators are interested in accelerating their strategic projects with a Culture-Friendly approach.

* https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisacarlin/

* Turbocharge Hub, for frameworks, learning and community to reach your full potential as a change leader.

* The Turbochargers Website

* Lisa Carlin New YouTube channel

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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 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.

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You 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 thinking is a part of your character.

But this may be why you are confused. Others around you don’t share this trait. In fact, you feel like a fish out of water – always harping on the need for long-term thinking, sometimes asking inconvenient questions.

You can’t understand why others don’t share your concern. And it’s not that you are particularly ESG, sustainable or anything like. Nor do you come from an old-school. You sense that the company would make better decisions if it had more than the usual 3-5 year plan.

But how do you convince others in the C-Suite, and the board, to think with an additional lens? 

Tune into this episode as I tackle this wicked problem.