JumpLeap Long-Term Strategic Planning Podcast
Episodes
Ep 35 - Your Strategic Stagnation Isn't a Framework Problem—It's a Story Problem
18 May 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 34 How Do Leaders Make Decisions When There's No Time and No Certainty?
04 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 w...
Strategic Fluency - Frameworks or Stories?
10 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Transcript00:00:01Stop me if you’ve been in Bob’s position. Every strategist learns the frameworks. Porto five forces, blue ocean strategy, and SW...
Ep 33 - From Laundry-list, Wishlist or Checklist to a Game-Changing Strategy
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
Ep 32 - From Idea Overload to Execution - A Strategist's Guide to Prioritization
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour organization has 37 brilliant projects. You have bandw...
Live on Substack #3: Unmasking the Strategy Success Trap
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Unmasking the Strategy Success Trap: Why Booms Lead to Busts!How should your company react to amazing success? Join us for a spirited conversation dia...
Ep 31 - Escaping the Short-Term Trap
29 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, boar...
Hard to engage staff on vision/strategy? Do it in your sleep with AI.
19 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of staff surveys on company vision and corporate strategy showing disengagement despite your best efforts? You're not alone. Most leaders think ...
Ep 30 Implementation Issues | A Community’s Role in Strategic Change
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 29 USA: Stuck in a Divide
20 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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.How...
Ep 28 Strategizing Around a Toxic Culture
23 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 o...
Ep 27 - Missing Insights | How to Find Breakthrough Strategies in the C-Suite
07 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
Ep 26 - Seth Godin - Stuck in Stale Strategy? Seeing Systems Holding You Back
05 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Your company is built on systems - a whole bunch of systems which are intertwined.Understanding how they work together is critical for any strategic c...
Ep 25 - Drowning in Data | How AI Can Rescue Strategy
19 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are a facilitator or sponsor of strategic planning offs...
Ep 24 Employees Want In! | How AI Fixes the Participation Gap w Dan Bruder
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour company is committed to engaging staff in implementing...
Ep 23 - Conflicting Visions - the Invisible Threat that Unites Goals
24 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 22 - Strategy Across Silos | Master Planning Redefined
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 21 Navigating Cultural Drift: Fixing Leadership and Strategy Before It’s Too Late
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comWhat happens when leadership goes off-course and starts und...
Ep 20- Shifting from Weak Proactive to Strong Pre-Emptive Strategic Planning
04 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour company has a problem implementing its strategic plans...
Ep 19 - Enduring the Messy Stages of Strategic Planning
12 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 proje...
Ep 18 - What if your strategy document is missing actual strategic thinking?
26 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 18 - When a Written Strategy Document Lacks a Strategy
22 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour company has a long history of putting together strateg...
Ep 17 - How to Find Time for Strategic Planning
08 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 e...
Reversing Neglect: The Case of Vale Royal and Vision 2030 Jamaica
09 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 b...
Ep 16.5 Is There Actually a Valid “Just Keep Things Going” Strategy?
08 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Your organization is about to conduct its annual strategic planning process. From all indications, this will be another “business as usual” effort...
Ep 16 Getting Deep Stakeholder Buy-In to Strategic Plans
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 15 How to Convince Colleagues Your Company Needs a Long-Term Strategy Along with Its Big Vision
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 14 - Making Hard Choices Between Strategies
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 13.5 MB #9 How to Add 25 Years to Your Strategic Plan in 4 Extra Hours
31 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comBeware: there are some fundamental misunderstandings being ...
Ep 13 - How to Convince Colleagues Your Company Needs a Long-Term Vision-Strategy
20 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 12 - Getting Executives to Think Strategically
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYou are attending a strategic planning offsite and notice t...
Ep 11: Season 2 Opener to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast
07 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 stakehold...
Ep 10.5 How to Conduct a Game-Changing 15-30-Year Strategic Planning Retreat
01 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Unraveling Strategy Amnesia
24 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever left a strategic planning retreat feeling invigorated, only to find that the excitement fizzles out? Despite the initial enthusiasm and ...
Ep 10 - MB #8 Why Today’s BHAGs Need to Be More than Impossible
03 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Aren’t Working
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 - ...
Ep 9 The Problem with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - Audio
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Developm...
Ep 8 The Hidden Impact of CSRD on Strategic Planning - Audio
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The article is available as a written newsletter on the JumpLeap Newsletter.You have heard of CSRD (the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive),...
The Surprising Way CSRD Impacts Strategic Planning
08 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
You have heard of CSRD (the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), at least in passing. As a new reporting requirement, it calls for your comp...
Ep 7 - MB#7 - Helping Stakeholders to Understand Your Strategic Plan
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 mea...
Making Hard Choices
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 fr...
Ep 6- MB#6 - Not Towards the Future But Back From It
31 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Ep 5 - MB#5 - How Does Your Team Generate a Precise Future Vision?
12 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Ep 4 - MB#4 - What’s the First Order of Business in Your Next Strategic Planning Retreat?
02 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 Str...
Ep 3 - MB#3 Why Organizations Need to Stop Putting Lipstick (i.e. ESG Goals) on a Pig
28 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
MB #2 Which Time Horizon is Best? Short or Long-Term? Why?
24 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 l...
Audio Version - Ban the Swot from Your Retreat
22 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Subscribe to Chronicles from a Caribbean Cubicle Podcast podcast here on PodBean. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other s...
Ep 1 - MB#1 - Let's Begin at the Very End of Your Next Retreat
21 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.comYour next strategic planning offsite is meant to “move th...
What Happens When Vision Statements Lose Their Potency
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, ...
How to create and dominate business categories
01 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In your company’s strategic planning activities, you hope to make more than incremental improvements. Instead, your team dreams of brilliant decisio...
Why people analytics isn’t just for HR
15 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 tr...
Learning Long-Term Planning from Tennis’ Williams Sisters
30 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 exp...
Strategic Plan Implementation Reset
16 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Your company is considering its next strategic planning retreat. But the last real one, held just before COVID, didn’t anticipate a pandemic. So, th...
Stop Boring Your Staff with Small Goals
02 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ener...
Email is not a Nuisance - It’s Your Job
19 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Is Your Company being Led By a Great Strategist?
04 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 dai...
Why CEO’s need to think like Chief Learning Officers
21 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 av...
Why useful strategic plans require deep handshake agreements
08 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 un...
Stop Conflating Budget with Strategy
31 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 departme...
Check calendar or read email? The right pattern of effective work habits
10 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 inbo...
Change the Perception of HR in Strategic Planning
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Stop Ignoring the Next Tech Disruption
13 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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, anywa...
How to Sell Disruption to Company Executives
30 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 vir...
Five-Year Plans Aren’t Strategic. They’re Dangerous
01 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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-...
Managers not adjusting well to remote work
17 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 resum...
Interview with Balanced Scorecard Creator Dr. Robert Kaplan
09 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 hav...
Thinking Strategically in the Future and the Present
08 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Quit Complaining About Prior Strategies
20 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Resolving the discrepancy between male and female work ethic
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 th...
How to manage a COVID-era ineffective employee
20 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
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 opini...
Writing Strategic Plans an Inside Job
06 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Can someone from outside your company create your organization’s strategic plan? After all, if your future depends on the quality of this document, ...
Why ”Short-Term Strategy” is a Misnomer
23 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Have you ever been stuck in a strategic planning session, complaining to yourself: “This is nothing more than a continuation of old, tired thoughts?...
Strategy: Intentions vs. Predictions
09 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
As a leader of your company, you may notice managers and board members struggling to be strategic. Trapped in low-level thinking, they habitually thin...
WhatsApp Groups for Employee Engagement
27 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
A Perfect Memory for Your ToDos
16 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Why CEO’s Want HR to Transform Itself
28 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Human Resource departments are facing an unprecedented demand to become analytic and data-driven. But few are answering the call. What should HR pract...
How Data Opens New Doors for Companies
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In the past few years, what opportunities has the shift to online business created for local companies? Your firm may be automating its processes, b...
Lessons from Virtual Conferences
31 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you have been asked to create a multi-day, online event, you may want it to be everything a live event should be. But you could also be wondering: ...
Are you a tit-for-tat manager?
17 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As a company leader, you are probably interested in employees doing their best work. But most new staff members quickly lose the inspiration they had ...
Triaging new workplace ideas
02 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An engaged staff full of bright ideas? This is clearly an aspiration for most leaders. But what happens when employees, armed with a dose of courage, ...
Stop your brainstorming for better innovations
18 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Where should good ideas for new products and services come from? Does the customer know best or not? Answer these questions correctly and your company...
On fostering powerful admins
04 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As an up-and-coming leader in your company, do you need an administrative assistant? If you are adamant that you don’t, consider that it’s only a ...
Personal Productivity Scorecard
22 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do in short periods which demand that you get a lot done, sometimes with overlapping deadlines? They are especially bothersome if your ca...
The unending new-tech learning curve
08 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What can you do in short periods which demand that you get a lot done, sometimes with overlapping deadlines? They are especially bothersome if your ca...
The perfect work day
25 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you design an inspiring day’s work? Is it a matter of luck, or chance? Or can it be engineered and turned on like a switch? This is a public ...
Shifting to online methods of reaching prospects
11 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Too many executives are unaware of game-changing ways their markets are shifting. Their post-COVID audience of prospects and customers now expects mor...
Why “We’re Number One!” Goals Have Become Useless
27 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In times past it was fashionable for corporate leaders to craft vision statements with commitments to be “number one” and “world class”. Late...
Why New Employees Need to be Gamified, or Else
10 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
What’s happening in the workplace to young employees? They seem to operate by a different set of values, showing little interest in company events.Y...
How to Tackle the Problem of Conglomerate Strategy
02 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How do you craft a strategic plan for a group of companies? Why do so many efforts end up with nothing more than “last-year’s-plan-plus-5%?” Dis...
Misapplying Psychological Solutions to Practical Problems
18 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Employee Productivity - Are you searching for psychological solutions to practical problems?As an executive, have you fallen into the trap of looking ...
A CEO’s dilemma: having a great idea for a new strategy
25 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re the leader of an organization, what should you do when you develop an exciting, fresh strategic direction for your company? Before you rus...
New Reasons to Stop Competing
17 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Much of the MBA-level teaching around strategy focuses on beating the competition. Has that line of thinking been rendered obsolete by the pandemic, t...
Why You Need an After-McKinsey Retreat
23 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
If your company is using an outside strategy consulting firm like McKinsey, what is the best step to take after they leave? If their expensive advice ...
How to Say No and Become More Productive
09 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Is there a way to turn down requests from other people and thereby increase your productivity? In the changing world we live in, you may have to say m...