Strategy Meets Reality Podcast
di Mike Jones
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Strategy Meets Reality In Higher Education And Community Wellbeing
Strategy Meets Reality In Higher Education And Community Wellbeing
Informazioni su questo podcast
Traditional strategy is broken.
The world is complex, unpredictable, and constantly shifting—yet most strategy still relies on outdated assumptions of control, certainty, and linear plans.
Strategy Meets Reality is a podcast for leaders who know that theory alone doesn’t cut it.
Hosted by Mike Jones, organisational psychologist and systems thinker, this show features honest, unfiltered conversations with leaders, strategists, and practitioners who’ve had to live with the consequences of strategy.
We go beyond frameworks to explore what it really takes to make strategy work in the real world—where trade-offs are messy, power dynamics matter, and complexity won’t go away.
No jargon. No fluff. Just real insight into how strategy and execution actually happen.
🎧 New episodes every Tuesday. Subscribe and rethink your strategy.
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- Strategy Meets Reality In Higher Education And Community Wellbeing · 49 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 25Strategy sounds tidy until funding shocks, shifting policy, and the messy reality of local communities hit. We sit down with Craig Hobbs, senior lecturer and systems thinker, to…
- Meaning Does Not Transfer | Luiz von Paumgartten · 1 h 10 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 24Strategy fails in ways that feel mysterious: the plan looked solid, the logic was sound, and yet reality does something else. I’m joined by Luiz von Paumgartten, a patent…
- From Strategy To Reality Through Better Operations | Ben Chappell · 50 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 23A strategy you can't deliver isn't ambitious; it's wishful thinking. Mike sits down with Ben Chappell, founder of Cove Ops, to get brutally practical about the gap between…
- Who Leads When AI Thinks | Adrian Wolfberg · 54 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 22AI is moving faster than our organisations can make sense of, and that gap is where strategy breaks. We sit down with Adrian Wolfberg, a former national security practitioner and…
- Reality First Strategy | Mike Jones · 38 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 21Most strategy starts in the wrong place. Someone picks the destination, the deck gets built, and nobody stops to examine the ground the organisation is actually standing on. No…
- Innovation That Survives Reality | Robyn Bolton · 49 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 20If your organisation keeps saying "we need to be more innovative" while doing everything possible to crush experimentation, this conversation is for you. I'm joined by Robyn…
- Making Strategy Real | Evan Campbell · 56 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 19A strategy can look flawless on a slide deck and still fail the moment it reaches the real world. I’m joined by Evan Campbell, technology executive, former management consultant…
- Strategy Meets Reality In Government | Alison Guthrie-Wrenn · 48 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 19Strategy sounds clean on a slide deck. Then you try to deliver it inside a system with competing priorities, blurred boundaries, and a public spotlight that never switches off…
- The Venture Capital Long Game | Andreas Panayiotou · 53 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 18Strategy sounds clean on paper until it hits real markets, real customers, real competitors and real time pressure. I’m joined by Andreas Panayiotou from Notion Capital to unpack…
- Relational Dynamics For Strategic Leaders | Dr Alice Jing Shan · 55 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 17Your strategy can look brilliant on paper and still be totally disconnected from reality. We talk with Dr Alice Jing Shan, who is the originator of Relational Dynamics™, the…
- What is the Neurology of Business | Martin Pfiffner · 49 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 16Your organisation might have a polished strategy deck, a neat org chart, and a backlog full of “agile” work, yet decisions still stall and accountability still blurs. That is the…
- From AI Hype To Competitive Advantage And Real Change | Dr Mark Bloomfield · 51 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 15AI is moving fast, but the real risk is moving fast in the wrong direction. We sit down with Dr Mark Bloomfield, founder of Turbulence and a fellow at Cambridge Judge Business…
- Sensemaking Under The Confusion Tax | Richard Claydon · 52 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 14Strategy fails in the gap between the plan and the lived reality of work, and that gap is where most leaders burn out. We sit down with Richard Claydon, an organisational…
- Why Just Broadcasting Strategy Is Sabotaging Execution | Jurriaan Kamer · 48 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 13Strategy fails in a painfully predictable place: the moment it leaves the boardroom and lands in everyone else’s calendar. We sit down with Jurriaan Kamer to get brutally…
- Speed Kills In Business Strategy | Alex Vohr · 53 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 12Strategy falls apart in the messy middle between plans and execution, and that is exactly where we spend our time with Alex Vohr, author of Speed Kills: Leveraging John Boyd's…
- The Confusion Tax | Stefan Norrvall · 52 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 11Strategy often fails for a boring reason: nobody knows who can decide what, and everything slows to a crawl. We sit down with Stefan Norrvall, joining us from Australia, to…
- What is Strategy For? | Mike Jones · 41 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 10Most organisations don’t fail at strategy because they lack ambition. They fail because they skip the one thing that has to come first: an honest read of reality. In this solo…
- What Really Drives Strategic Decisions? | Matt Finch · 57 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 9The strategy looks clean on paper. Real strategy is sweaty, uncertain, and intensely human. Mike Jones sits down with Matt Finch, a strategist, foresight practitioner, negotiator…
- Good Strategy Helps People Make Tough Choices Under Uncertainty | Joel Grundy · 55 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 8Strategy can feel like a choice between two bad options: a rigid annual plan that gets ignored by February, or constant agility that mistakes motion for direction. We sit down…
- What If Everyone In Your Organisation Is Already Strategising? | Garin Rouch · 53 min · Stagione 2 Episodio 7Strategy can look brilliant on paper and still fail the moment it meets the organisation that has to deliver it. We sit down with Gavin Rouch, an organisational development…
