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Lisa Carlin on JumpLeap Strategy Podcast 4

Name: Lisa Carlin on JumpLeap Strategy Podcast 4
Uploaded: 2025-08-11T15:28:22+00:00
Duration: 28 s
Channel: Francis Wade
Description: In this excerpt, the speaker explains that many strategic initiatives are more about strategic intent than a concrete, choice‑driven strategy. They note…

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In this excerpt, the speaker explains that many strategic initiatives are more about strategic intent than a concrete, choice‑driven strategy. They note that analyses can sometimes produce no clear recommendation, creating hurdles in demonstrating the value of a strategy. The speaker stresses that the CEO must stay actively involved to validate the strategic intent, ensure the underlying questions are correctly answered, and overcome these value‑demonstration hurdles.

Sometimes there's no real choice in it. So it's more of a strategic intent than an actual strategy where you've made a choice between elements. So there could be a whole number of things wrong, or it might just be analysis and there's no real recommendation in there. So there's a whole bunch of hurdles around the value of the strategy first that you've got to, you know, that CEO has to, you know, stay involved in and make sure that the answers of what you're actually trying to do is correct.