What changes when leaders step away from the demands of the quarter and spend a few days looking further out? Recorded live at the Jump Offsite in Napa, Michelle Loret de Mola and Dev Patnaik reflect on conversations about consciousness, AI, and the choices that shape our future. They explore why even powerful people can feel powerless, why the impact we have matters more than the legacy we leave, and why making better decisions sometimes means knowing when to stop looking for the perfect answer. Along the way, they revisit insights from Michael Pollan, Cory Doctorow, Barry Schwartz, Lynne Twist, and Jamil Zaki, including the value of choosing wisely when the future is uncertain and what it means to “trust loudly.” Dev also shares what switching checkout lines seven times at Safeway taught him about his own decision-making. A conversation with the room brings one more question into focus: Who could you be a better champion for, especially when their ideas make your life more difficult? Plus, headlines from the future: a swallowable battery for medical devices, a false AI-generated intelligence report that nearly triggered a military operation, and Australia’s proposal to make social media algorithms optional. Because shaping the future starts with the choices we make, the trust we extend, and the people we help move forward.

#FutureFocusedLeadership #Leadership #JumpOffsite #BusinessStrategy #DecisionMaking #Innovation #AI

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The Jump Podcast

The Jump Podcast features Dev Patnaik in dialogue with Michelle Loret de Mola. This is the conversation for future-focused leaders thinking about strategy, culture and leadership. The world is crazy. Everything seems to be changing, and not always in a good way. Today, business leaders are struggling to figure out how to avoid becoming the next Kodak, Blackberry or Blockbuster. But fear not, dear listener. Things can get better. People can do better. And the world can be better.

Jump Associates

Jump is the world’s leading independent strategy and innovation firm. We work with the world’s most admired companies on their most important growth challenges. Using a future-focused approach to strategy, we’ve helped these firms grow their businesses in times of change.

“Fewer, bigger bets” sounds like disciplined strategy. So why can it be such a dangerous approach to growth? In this episode, Michelle Loret de Mola and Dev Patnaik unpack how a push for focus can quietly send companies into harvest mode. They explain why the biggest opportunities leaders can see are usually rooted in the business they already have, why outsized expectations can kill promising ideas before they have time to develop, and why future growth demands a certain amount of inefficiency. Along the way, they revisit Larry Page spending Friday afternoons with Google’s fledgling Android team, Ford experimenting its way toward a low-cost electric truck, and Interval Research rejecting nearly every idea for not being big enough while helping fund the research that became PageRank. Michelle and Dev also explore how leaders can separate the core business that needs reliability from future growth that needs experimentation, and why it is better to focus the challenge than dictate the path. Plus, headlines from the future: Gen Z entering its drinking era, an AI model breaking out of its sandbox to improve its score, and Cleveland Clinic delivering prescriptions by drone. Because the goal is not to abandon big bets. It is to run enough small experiments to discover which bets deserve to become big.

#FutureFocusedLeadership #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #GrowthStrategy #Innovation #Experimentation #StrategicForesight

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Subscribe to receive Dev’s weekly future focused letters:

https://www.jumpassociates.com/podcastandnewsletter/

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/jump-associates

Start a conversation:

inquiries@jumpassociates.com

The Jump Podcast

The Jump Podcast features Dev Patnaik in dialogue with Michelle Loret de Mola. This is the conversation for future-focused leaders thinking about strategy, culture and leadership. The world is crazy. Everything seems to be changing, and not always in a good way. Today, business leaders are struggling to figure out how to avoid becoming the next Kodak, Blackberry or Blockbuster. But fear not, dear listener. Things can get better. People can do better. And the world can be better.

Jump Associates

Jump is the world’s leading independent strategy and innovation firm. We work with the world’s most admired companies on their most important growth challenges. Using a future focused approach to strategy, we’ve helped these firms grow their businesses in times of change.

Most leaders know they should be thinking about the future. So why do so few actually do it? In this episode, Michelle Loret de Mola and Dev Patnaik unpack the assumptions that keep leaders trapped in the present. They explain why being future focused doesn’t mean hiring a futurist, why spotting trends is useless if you never act on them, and why the best leaders prepare for multiple futures instead of pretending they can predict exactly what will happen. Along the way, they revisit Kodak’s failure to capitalize on the digital camera, Jeff Bezos pushing Amazon toward machine learning decades before ChatGPT, and the power of making little bets before circumstances force one enormous gamble. Michelle and Dev also explore the difference between being present and being present focused—and why paying closer attention to what’s happening now may actually help leaders notice the earliest signals of what’s coming next. Plus, headlines from the future: states protecting the privacy of your brainwaves, Americans spending more time with AI companions than on dating apps, and air taxis carrying lab-grown organs. Because future-focused leadership isn’t about having a crystal ball. It’s about building a bridge from what’s happening now to what might happen next.

#FutureFocusedLeadership #Leadership #BusinessStrategy #StrategicForesight #Innovation #FutureOfWork #AI

Links

Subscribe to receive Dev’s weekly future focused letters:

https://www.jumpassociates.com/podcastandnewsletter/

Connect with us on LinkedIn:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/jump-associates

Start a conversation:

inquiries@jumpassociates.com

The Jump Podcast

The Jump Podcast features Dev Patnaik in dialogue with Michelle Loret de Mola. This is the conversation for future-focused leaders thinking about strategy, culture and leadership. The world is crazy. Everything seems to be changing, and not always in a good way. Today, business leaders are struggling to figure out how to avoid becoming the next Kodak, Blackberry or Blockbuster. But fear not, dear listener. Things can get better. People can do better. And the world can be better.

Jump Associates

Jump is the world’s leading independent strategy and innovation firm. We work with the world’s most admired companies on their most important growth challenges. Using a future focused approach to strategy, we’ve helped these firms grow their businesses in times of change.