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LeadershipX Business (LXB) — Strategy in Practice

LeadershipX Business (LXB) — Strategy in Practice

Written by: Team LeadershipX
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Most leaders don’t struggle because they lack ideas — they struggle because everything feels noisy. Too many priorities. Too much reacting. And the painful part is you often only find out you’ve missed the month when the month is already over.

Strategy in Practice (S1.1–S1.10) is a complete LeadershipX Business (LXB) series designed to fix that — with a simple, boardroom-ready system that turns strategy into weekly execution.

Across 10 lessons, you’ll build your strategy from the ground up:

  • Understand the real difference between strategy and tactics
  • Map your market properly — segments, demand drivers, and who you’re really for
  • Analyse competitors in a way that changes decisions
  • Choose your competitive advantage (how you win)
  • Write positioning so clear customers repeat it back
  • Lock in trade-offs (what you stop doing)
  • Put it all into a one-page strategy
  • Build KPI trees (leading vs lagging) so you spot issues early
  • Create a 90-day execution plan with owners, dates, measures
  • Finish with scenario planning (best/worst/expected + triggers) so you don’t get surprised

This is not theory. Each episode produces an output you can use immediately in your business, your leadership role, and inside LeadershipX.

What You’ll Walk Away With (Clear Outcomes)

By the end of the series, you’ll have:

  • A defined primary segment + demand drivers
  • A real competitor map + winnable ground
  • Your chosen advantage + capabilities to build
  • A one-sentence positioning statement
  • A written set of trade-offs and non-negotiables
  • A Strategy on a Page you can run weekly
  • KPI trees with leading indicators + trigger rules
  • A 90-day execution plan (owners, dates, measures, cadence)
  • A scenario pack (expected/best/worst + triggers + actions + risk controls)

Who This Series Is For

  • GMs, operators, founders, heads of department, and leaders running real teams
  • Anyone tired of reactive firefighting and “end-of-month surprise” leadership
  • Leaders who want a simple system that holds up in the real world
  • People building strategy but also responsible for delivery

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Episodes
  • Scenario Planning That Protects Execution

    Scenario Planning That Protects Execution
    Dec 23 2025

    Plans collapse when reality changes. In this final episode, you’ll build a scenario pack with expected, best, and worst cases, quantify key drivers (volume, conversion, cost, cash), define weekly triggers that show which scenario you’re trending into, and pre-decide the actions that protect cash, margin, standards, and momentum. We also add a Top 5 risk layer with controls, detection, response, and owners—so you lead with readiness, not panic.

    You will learn:

    • Plausible scenarios vs dramatic “apocalypse” planning
    • Drivers that matter most and how to model them simply
    • Triggers and thresholds that force early action
    • Pre-decided actions per scenario (no panic decisions)
    • Risk layer: controls + detection + response + owner
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    7 mins
  • 90-Day Plan That Gets Done

    90-Day Plan That Gets Done
    Dec 23 2025

    This episode turns strategy into results. You’ll build a 90-day plan with 3–5 priorities, each broken into projects with clear owners, deadlines, delivery measures, and impact measures. Then we lock the weekly operating rhythm that prevents drift—so execution becomes calm, predictable, and repeatable.

    You will learn:

    • Why too many priorities kills delivery
    • How to write priorities linked to KPI drivers
    • Delivery vs impact measures (box-ticking prevention)
    • Weekly cadence: remove drift and unblock fast
    • The one-line project format boards respect

    Outcome / Artifact:

    90-Day Plan (priorities → projects → owner/date/measure) + weekly review agenda
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    7 mins
  • KPI Trees: Predict Performance Before It Drops

    KPI Trees: Predict Performance Before It Drops
    Dec 23 2025

    Most teams measure outcomes too late. In this episode you’ll build KPI trees that break an outcome (like revenue, margin, complaints, turnover) into the drivers you can influence weekly. You’ll learn how to define metrics properly, assign owners, set cadence, and build trigger rules—so you spot issues early and fix causes, not symptoms.

    You will learn:

    • Leading vs lagging indicators (with examples)
    • How to break outcomes into controllable drivers
    • KPI definitions that stop argument and confusion
    • Owners + cadence: who watches what and when
    • Trigger rules: when to act, not just observe

    Outcome / Artifact:

    KPI Tree + Definitions + Owners/Cadence + Trigger Actions
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    7 mins
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