Podcast: The Strategy of Social Impact

11A Collaborative Founder Julian Chender sat down with master strategist Mike Jones on his Strategy Meets Reality Podcast to discuss social impact strategy and the importance of working within constraints. In this episode Julian draws on his experience to show how social impact organizations can build outsized impact with limited resources by focusing on adaptive strategy and solid organization design.

In this conversation you'll learn:

• The importance of developing strategic choices (you always have choices even in the most challenging situations)

• Why senior leaders need to stay at the “right level,” e.g., out of the detail, so they can focus on what on steering the organization through external shifts in the environment

• The need to clarify purpose before getting to strategy, and well before getting to tactics

• How Capabilities drive strategy and why lead an organization to the next level

• Why it is in everyone’s best interest to empower people throughout the system to act freely within guardrails

Watch below or listen wherever you get your podcasts! And know that Mike and Julian met over a year ago when they both did episodes for The OrgDev Podcast with Garin and Dani but had never spoken until this recording. If you’re interested in that, check out Julian’s episode of the OrgDev Podcast on Transformative Organization Design here.