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37 episodes
since June 10, 2023
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In this episode, Paul Hunter explores the concept of Strategic Freedom; the ability to continue evaluating, learning and making intelligent choices long after a major commitment has been made. Drawing on examples such as BHP's investment in copper, the discussion examines why organisations oft…

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Beyond response: adaptation keeps an organisation viable, but it can also leave it inside someone else's version of the future. In the previous episode I argued that one of the hardest moments in strategy arrives when past success stops explaining the future. This episode takes up the harder q…
In this Strategy Brief Paul Hunter explores why organisations can undertake extensive change—restructures, technology programmes, cost reductions and transformation initiatives—yet still fail to become more capable of dealing with their future. The episode distinguishes change from becoming. It int…
Tesla, BYD and Toyota are all looking at the future of mobility. Yet each is making a very different bet. Why? In a world of rapid technological change, the challenge is no longer spotting signals. The challenge is deciding which future deserves commitment. In this episode, we explore one of the mo…
How do leaders make meaningful commitments when nobody can know the outcome? When Jaguar revealed its new direction, reactions were immediate. Some saw courage. Others saw recklessness. Many were convinced the company had either rediscovered its future or destroyed it. What was remarkable wasn&apos…
Netflix became one of the world’s most successful disruptors by repeatedly recognising possibilities that others ignored. From DVD rentals to streaming, from distributor to creator, the company built its success by challenging assumptions and continually reinventing itself. Yet recent reporting sug…
Why do some organisations adapt, renew and reinvent themselves while others remain trapped by yesterday's decisions? In this episode, we explore a fundamental shift in how strategy actually works. Traditional approaches treat strategy as a fixed plan — something defined in advance and executed…
A retail division lost more than 80% of its revenue in key locations — and leadership couldn’t explain why. Pricing looked fine. Marketing hadn’t changed. Execution appeared intact. This is a business strategy failure that most leadership teams misread as an execution problem. The problem wasn’t ex…
Many organisations don’t fail because they lack insight.They fail because they commit too early — and then build governance systems that make changing course too expensive. What looks like a strategy problem is often something deeper: a system that locks decisions in before they can be properly tes…
Most strategy failures do not begin with bad ideas. They begin earlier, when judgement collapses under pressure and premature commitment hardens into obligation. In this episode, we examine why CFOs are structurally implicated in strategy failure — not because they “own” strategy, but because capit…
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