Efficiency can make you fragile. Coherence makes you viable.

In this episode, Norman Chorn—strategist, educator, and scenario thinker—joins Mike Jones to explore why traditional alignment fails in uncertainty, and how strategic coherence can help organisations adapt and thrive. From low-regret bets to common capabilities, they unpack how leaders can design for resilience, not prediction.

Most organisations think they’re doing strategy—but they’re often just reinforcing a single worldview.

In this episode, Ben Zweibelson—veteran, military strategist, and author of Reconceptualizing War—joins Mike Jones to explore how dominant paradigms shape the way we fight, plan, and lead. From functionalism to interpretivism, and complexity to irreversibility, this is a sharp, provocative look at why multi-paradigm thinking is no longer optional. It’s the foundation of modern strategic sensemaking.

Control is comforting, but often a trap. In this episode, Michael Negendahl joins Mike Jones to explore why so much strategy and safety work is performative, how leaders confuse the perception of control with real progress, and why diagnosing problems comes before declaring solutions. From risk management to distributed intelligence, this is a candid look at leading in complexity.

Innovation is often misunderstood—as a buzzword, a campaign, or a flashy showcase of creativity. But real innovation is about solving the right problems.

In this episode, Paul Frobisher—engineer, innovator, and founder of Strategic Innovation—joins Mike Jones to explore why so many organisations mismanage innovation. They unpack how poor problem definition, disconnected strategy, and emotional resistance undermine progress—and why frameworks like TRIZ and IDEF0 help bring discipline and clarity. From hydrogen futures to innovation ecosystems, this is a grounded conversation on what it takes to innovate with intent in an uncertain world.