115: Strategy cargo net

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Tentacles - the podcast from Crown & Reach

Tom Kerwin

22 episodes

1 day ago

Hi, we’re Tom and Corissa from Crown & Reach, and this is Tentacles.

With over 100 episodes behind us, this might just be the best bad podcast out there. Unfiltered, unedited, and deeply curious.

We talk strategy, sense-making, and the blurry edges between work and the rest of life — because sometimes, the only way through the fog is to feel your way forward, limbs outstretched.

While we're migrating podcasts across, you can find all the goodness from our first 100 or so episodes here: https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy

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Hi, we’re Tom and Corissa from Crown & Reach, and this is Tentacles.

With over 100 episodes behind us, this might just be the best bad podcast out there. Unfiltered, unedited, and deeply curious.

We talk strategy, sense-making, and the blurry edges between work and the rest of life — because sometimes, the only way through the fog is to feel your way forward, limbs outstretched.

While we're migrating podcasts across, you can find all the goodness from our first 100 or so episodes here: https://shows.acast.com/triggerstrategy

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

115: Strategy cargo net

Tentacles - the podcast from Crown & Reach

21 minutes 54 seconds

3 months ago

115: Strategy cargo net

Stop eating frogs.

A lot of people think strategy happens in boardrooms with flip charts and important people saying momentous things.

In this episode we argue that you're doing strategy when you decide what to do with your next three hours. (It's very strategic of you to spend 22 minutes listening).

We introduce the strategy ladder — or is it a cargo net? — a way to think about how your influence can scale from individual hours to organisational quarters, without you needing to set up shop in a glass-walled war room.

Including-but-not-limited-to

Why strategy definitions are contradictory and often just marketing
Why "strategic" often just means "more expensive"
Hidden hierarchy games and what they mean for influence in the workplace
The difference between real strategy and expensive to-do lists
How to be less unstrategic with your next 1-3 hours (and why that matters)
The two scales that strategy operates on: time and people
Why you can't set SMART goals on things outside your control
Environment design vs willpower: the biscuit shelf principle
Mouse-wiggling surveillance and the intrinsic motivation alternative
Why other people don't want their behaviour changed (spoiler: it's none of your damn business)

This one's for anyone who's tired of feeling like strategy is happening somewhere else.

If you've got a better metaphor than a cargo net, or great examples of Monday morning strategic thinking, drop us an email: tentacles@crownandreach.com (& if you've tried before and got a bounce notification, please try again – we fixed it!)

References

John Cutler's "1s and 3s" time horizons concept: https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-1453-1s-and-3s
Experimental History's Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs? https://www.experimental-history.com/p/repost-excuse-me-but-why-are-you
Theory X vs Theory Y management approaches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_X_and_Theory_Y
Reddit thread about Eat That Frog: https://www.reddit.com/r/productivity/comments/108tgov/eat_that_frog/

Find out more about us and our work at crownandreach.com

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