Leaders often think vision alone inspires people and that failed initiatives just happen. When progress stalls, they yell louder, threaten, and flood teams with warnings. None of it works. This series explores how to make long-term strategy actually tangible and actionable.
You don't want them to, you know, buy into some of the common misconceptions in the for-profit world, to buy into the idea that it's not going to work for whatever reason. And in the non-for-profit world, that all we need to do is to set the vision and it's up to everyone else, other organizations, to be inspired and run with it, that all they need to do is just get serious. So those are some of the things that happen if, you know, if you're not able to take your communication and your ability to create results to the next level. And you know what people usually do when they're, they're confronted by this inability to make a difference in long-term strategic planning around them is that they— some people, you know, they start to shout louder, become more shrill, make demands or threats or warnings. They'll send endless articles out to their stakeholders and say, "Here, read this. Look what the experts are saying." Send out a bunch of links to videos and podcasts, or they make overblown claims that if we don't do this, then we're not going to be successful. And that approach, while it's typical and it's common, doesn't always make the difference that you want it to make. And that's one of the, one of the questions we want to tackle in the podcast series. How do you get past the typical kind of approaches to making long-term strategy real?
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