Ep 31 – Escaping the Short-Term Trap

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit longtermstrategy.substack.com You have a hunger for game-changing results. As a CEO, board member, or strategic planner, you aspire to produce big results. While you know methods that work, you still find yourself drifting back into short-term thinking in these tumultuous days. Without daily activities guiding you toward a True North—a preferred long-term destination—you run the risk of being sucked into the 24-hour news cycle or latest drama. How do you build the strategic muscles necessary to withstand even daily shocks and surprises? The opposite of conventional strategy is true. Stop chasing short-term survival; outsiders and technology cannot save you from constant disruption. Conventional wisdom demanding “twice the results in half the time” is fundamentally flawed. Real game-changing success requires robust long-term strategic muscle. We expose the 25 fatal obstacles infecting C-suites with short-term thinking, providing definitive ‘obstacle knowledge’ so you can become a robust, different kind of strategist who can preemptively design for disruption. Tune in to join me in tackling this wicked problem. I’ll share the approach we took to designing the Long-Term Strategy Conference 2025 held in June. I’m Francis Wade and welcome to the JumpLeap Long-Term Strategy Podcast. P.S. Here’s a LLM prompt you can copy and paste into an LLM to deepen your understanding: Act as a strategic planning consultant. I just listened to a podcast about long-term strategic planning. Here’s the core insight I learned: “Big results need years. Long time frame and big results go together. If you try to commit to big goals on short time frames, it doesn’t work.” My current strategic planning challenge is: [DESCRIBE IN ONE SENTENCE YOUR BIGGEST STRUGGLE WITH LONG-TERM THINKING IN YOUR ORGANIZATION]. Based on this insight, identify three specific symptoms in my organization that indicate we’re stuck in short-term thinking. Then suggest one concrete conversation starter I can use this week to begin reframing our strategic discussions. P.P.S. Want more? For subscribers, I have generated at least 5 more prompts, available below the paywall. Show Notes https://strategyconf.fwconsulting.com/conference-topics-2025/ – The full list of 25 Obstacles The full video is available below for subscribers. So are the other LLM Prompts mentioned above.The post Ep 31 – Escaping the Short-Term Trap first appeared on Long-Term Strategic Planning Conference 2026.