WHERE LEADERS RETHINK HOW STRATEGY WORKS IN THE REAL WORLD
The traditional approach to strategy is broken.
In a world that won’t sit still, leaders can’t rely on outdated models built for stability and control.
Strategy Meets Reality is a podcast for leaders, strategists, and thinkers who want real insight—not theory. Hosted by organisational psychologist and systems thinker Mike Jones, each episode cuts through the noise with honest conversations from people who’ve lived the complexity, made the tough calls, and rethought what strategy means in practice.
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Meet your Host:
Mike Jones
Mike Jones is a systems thinker, organisational psychologist, and former British Army soldier.
He’s worked as a strategy and execution advisor to senior executives across rail, tech, and government to rethink how strategy actually works in complexity.
He founded LBI Consulting and author of the upcoming book When Strategy Meets Reality.
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Ep. 36 BS at Work with James Healy: Why Organisations Create Nonsense and How to Fix It
Most organisations design environments that make work harder, not easier.
In this episode, applied behavioural scientist and author James Healy joins Mike Jones to explore why so much of modern work is nonsense. They discuss e-learning that teaches nothing, metrics that distort behaviour, collaboration that never materialises, and the belief that more policies, more controls and more technology will fix human problems. James explains why behaviour is shaped by environment and why the most powerful move leaders can make is to remove what gets in the way.
A practical, entertaining and challenging conversation for leaders who want to design work that actually works.
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