Many folks have been waiting for more precise details about the Live Sessions and their timing. Day One Sep 15th Francis Wade – Opening Session – A Practical Orientation to LTSP26 900am-920am UTC-5/Central Francis Wade – Workflow First: Why Process Comes Before Read More
You’ve started leaning on AI for your strategy work. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — pick your favorite. You’ve fed it your hardest question, the one that’s been on your desk for weeks. And the answer came back in seconds. Polished. Balanced. Articulate. It Read More
Amie Devero: During 2024, what I have come to think of as “Year of the LLM”, I tried vibe coding. I wanted to make a gardening app. But Francis, my friend and former business partner, had just led a strategy retreat and Read More
Your company knows that it needs to move quickly once a corporate strategy has been developed, to get the document in the hands of the staff. But what does it mean to “get it into their hands?” Send them a pdf? Get Read More
Your company prides itself on its long-term thinking, planning and acting. But now that times are difficult due to the outbreak of a war, you are wary of what might happen given your experience of COVID, supply chain breakdowns and sudden tariffs. Read More
As the person responsible for driving innovation in your organisation, you have probably sat through a version of this conversation more than once. The leadership team agrees that a new category is needed. Everyone nods. A workshop is scheduled. Consultants are hired, Read More
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com Today, your executive team fills SWOT boxes in 90 minutes and calls it strategy. Tomorrow’s competitive landscape will punish that superficiality mercilessly. Chris Fox predicts the emerging standard: Read More
2028: As a (fictional) CEO, I came under pressure two years ago to produce a strategic plan by a sharp deadline. While I accept it’s part of my job, all of a sudden I received not-too-subtle demands from the board, funders, staff, Read More
In the early 1980s, McKinsey told my employer at the time, AT&T, that the global market for mobile phones would top out at roughly 900,000 subscribers by 2000. The actual number was 100 million. A decade later, AT&T paid $11.5 billion for Read More
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 with confidence. And then… blank looks. Awkward silence. The room moves on as if you hadn’t spoken. It Read More