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Strategy Meets Reality Podcast

Mike Jones
Strategy
Mission Command
Decision-Making
Futures Thinking
Risk Management
Wholehearted
Adaptive Leadership
OODA Loop
Leadership
Execution
Management
Organizational Resilience
Agendashift
John Boyd
Narrative
Collaboration
Fit, Power, and Time
Conventional Strategy
Business Strategy
Collective Sensemaking

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The world is complex, unpredictable, and constantly shifting—yet most strategy still relies on outdated assumptions of control, certainty, and linear plans.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 conversa... more

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Most 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 reflection, Mike Jones pulls together the strongest themes from the recent... more

The 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 and mediator, to get underneath the slide decks and into the lived expe... more

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Strategy 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 with Joel Grundy, Head of Strategy at Q5, to get back to what strategy is ... more

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Strategy 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 practitioner, to get honest about why that happens and what to do instead. We... more

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Recent Guests

Joel Grundy
Head of Strategy at Q5 (Organization Health Consultancy)
Q5
Episode: Good Strategy Helps People Make Tough Choices Under Uncertainty | Joel Grundy
Garin Rouch
Strategy and Organization Development expert; co-host/guest on the episode
OrgDev consultancy (with Danny Bacon)
Episode: What If Everyone In Your Organisation Is Already Strategising? | Garin Rouch
Jayson Coil
Firefighter and Operations Chief with focus on strategy development
Sedona Fire District
Episode: Leaders Don’t Own Plans; They Own Clarity | Jayson Coil
David Sloly
Founder of a strategic storytelling agency; veteran in broadcast, advertising, and B2B marketing
Independent agency founder
Episode: From Radio Tales To Strategic Narratives | David Sloly
Lasse Jonasson
From the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies, CFO (Chief Foresight Officer)
Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Episode: Building Futures Literacy For Smarter Strategy | Lasse Jonasson
Erik Schön
Strategy practitioner and author; discusses Sun Tzu, Wardley, and Boyd
Episode: Why Great Strategy Lives In Action, Not PowerPoint | Erik Schön
Sarah Kernion
Founder of Inch Stones; autism advocate; mother of two with profound non-speaking autism
Inch Stones
Episode: You Can’t Out-Decide A Misaligned Orientation | Sarah Kernion
Stephen Bungay
Author of The Art of Action
Author/Consultant
Episode: How Mission Command Solves The Strategy–Execution Gap | Stephen Bungay
James Healy
Applied behavioral scientist and author of BS at Work
Author, BS at Work
Episode: BS at Work with James Healy: Why Organisations Create Nonsense and How to Fix It

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Mike Jones
Host of a podcast focusing on strategy, leadership, and organizational dynamics, emphasizing real-world insights and pragmatic discussions.

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BS at Work with James Healy: Why Organisations Create Nonsense and How to Fix It
Q: What do you measure in organizations and how does that drive behavior?
Metrics drive behavior, often toward optimizing the metric rather than achieving real outcomes; Goodhart's law is invoked to explain why targets distort what is actually important.
BS at Work with James Healy: Why Organisations Create Nonsense and How to Fix It
Q: Just for our guest, do you mind giving a bit of background about yourself, a bit of context, what you've been up to lately?
James Healy explains his work as an applied behavioral scientist, consultant, author, and speaker who applies anthropology, behavioral economics, neuroscience, and psychology to solve human problems in organizations.
How Mission Command Solves The Strategy–Execution Gap | Stephen Bungay
Q: What are the implications for marketing and production when you adopt mission command in a modern business?
If the higher intent is clear, different functions can infer appropriate tasks and adapt the plan locally; marketing, production, and other units must translate the intent into concrete actions in their domains, with ongoing dialogue to refine and align as situations evolve.
Freedom Within Constraints: Julian Chender on Strategy, Capabilities and Navigating Organisational Reality
Q: Can you give listeners a quick background on your work and where you're applying strategy and organization design today?
Julian explains he operates at the intersection of org design and strategy, primarily in the social sector, helping organizations clarify their field of play, align capabilities with desired impact, and navigate constraints rather than chase everything.
Rethink Risk with Denis Fischbacher Smith: Vulnerabilities, Threats and Organisational Failure
Q: How should leaders reframe risk in complex environments?
Leaders should shift from measuring probability and consequence of isolated events to mapping threat landscapes and vulnerabilities, and then implement targeted controls that maintain flexibility and adaptability within constraints.

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2. Garin Rouch
3. Jayson Coil
4. David Sloly
5. Lasse Jonasson
6. Erik Schön
7. Sarah Kernion
8. Stephen Bungay

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