Leadership Genius is a podcast designed to generate and facilitate ongoing conversations about the evolution of leadership practices in the rapidly evolving 21st century workforce and global society.
Jason Diamond Arnold, Director of Leadership Solutions at Inspire Software, interviews listeners on bridging strategy and results by integrating cold and warm data for effective execution.
29 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Strategic Leadership Disconnect
Jason Diamond Arnold analyzes the disconnect between strategic leadership and employee understanding, advocating for OKRs and continuous performance management to align objectives and boost engagement in this episode.
11 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
The State of Strategic Leadership 2025
In this episode, Jason Diamond Arnold (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jdiamondarnold/) explores Inspire Software’s (https://inspiresoftware.com/) 2025 research on why most strategies fail during execution—and what leaders can do to fix this. Using survey data from multiple industries, he points out the three main barriers to strategic leadership: Underused AI, Outdated Performance Systems, and a lack of trust in Strategic Data.
This episode of the Leadership Genius Podcast emphasizes that effectivestrategy implementation needs to extend beyond the C-suite, enabling leaders atall levels to align their goals and achieve results. Learn how toporganizations utilize integrated tools, ongoing performance management, andboth warm and cold data to foster trust and transparency. This episode alsooffers resources—including Inspire’s latest white paper, TheState of Strategy 2025 (https://offers.inspiresoftware.com/whitepaper-state-of-strategy-execution-2025?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Monthly+Newsletters&utm_content=371797822), the upcoming The Six Steps to a Winning Strategy e-book (https://inspiresoftware.com/6-steps-to-a-winning-strategy-ebook/), and details for the September 25th webinar on The Six Steps to Making Strategy Stick (https://inspiresoftware.com/webinar-6-steps-leaders-use-to-make-strategy-stick/)—to help organizations bridge the gap between strategy and execution.
[Download the 2025 State of Strategy Execution White Paper (https://offers.inspiresoftware.com/whitepaper-state-of-strategy-execution-2025?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Monthly+Newsletters&utm_content=371797822)]
[Download The Six Steps to a Winning Strategy eBook (https://inspiresoftware.com/6-steps-to-a-winning-strategy-ebook/)]
[Take the Strategic Readiness Assessment (https://inspiresoftware.outgrow.us/inspiresoftware-strategy-assessment)]
[Register for the September 25, 2025 Webinar (https://inspiresoftware.com/webinar-6-steps-leaders-use-to-make-strategy-stick/)]
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Strategic Leadership Champions
Published 2 Apr 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And some of the things that we learned from that research is that there are three fundamental ways that strategy breaks once you've implemented it and put it into sort of into the ethosphere, the ecosystem of a company. Is that one is the execution has a visibility gap and we write about this in the article that I just posted, leaders lack real -time visibility into what's happening with the strategy. We know what the target is, but we lack visibility into how well we're achieving the target unless we're like looking at very specific numbers like revenue or cost savings, which is part of the strategy but if your strategy is only about revenue, then you're missing a lot of other factors for your organization. […]
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