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Corporate Strategy · Friday · 1 hr 3 min

Strategy Is Medicine

We bring Brooklyn Jones back as our first on-camera guest and unpack why the word strategy makes smart people groan, then map the real issue to trust and plain-English leadership. We also draft the worst meeting formats and leave with practical scripts for getting strategic work done without triggering the eye roll. • Brooklyn’s life updates and graduating back into entrepreneurship • The top “worst meetings” draft and why they drain teams • Strategy as medicine and why people resist it • Trust and shame as the hidden blockers behind “execution problems” • Goals versus strategy and why jargon breaks buy-in • Problem-first thinking and simple strategy models that stick • Tactics for reducing pushback: don’t say “strategy,” repeat complaints verbatim, start small, lead with subtraction • Cascading strategy by audience and communicating up and down the org Check out Brooklyn's links here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynsmithveteran Business websites https://www.strategycapable.com/ https://www.bespokemovingconcierge.com/ Just join our Discord. It’s super easy. Like, share. Support the show Click/Tap HERE for everything Corporate Strategy Elevator Music by Julian Avila Promoted by MrSnooze Don't forget ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it helps!

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We bring Brooklyn Jones back as our first on-camera guest and unpack why the word strategy makes smart people groan, then map the real issue to trust and plain-English leadership. We also draft the worst meeting formats and leave with practical scripts for getting strategic work done without triggering the eye roll.

• Brooklyn’s life updates and graduating back into entrepreneurship 
• The top “worst meetings” draft and why they drain teams 
• Strategy as medicine and why people resist it 
• Trust and shame as the hidden blockers behind “execution problems” 
• Goals versus strategy and why jargon breaks buy-in 
• Problem-first thinking and simple strategy models that stick 
• Tactics for reducing pushback: don’t say “strategy,” repeat complaints verbatim, start small, lead with subtraction 
• Cascading strategy by audience and communicating up and down the org

Check out Brooklyn's links here:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynsmithveteran
 

Business websites 

https://www.strategycapable.com/

https://www.bespokemovingconcierge.com/

Just join our Discord. It’s super easy. 
Like, share.


Support the show


Click/Tap HERE for everything Corporate Strategy

Elevator Music by Julian Avila
Promoted by MrSnooze

Don't forget ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it helps!      

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