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		<title>What is Jim Collins Saying?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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&#34;&#160;We&#8217;re heading into a world characterized by big events, big forces, and massive storms. We&#8217;re going to be vulnerable little specks high on the mountain when the storm hits out of nowhere. And if we&#8217;re not prepared, we&#8217;re going to die up there. Or we&#8217;re going to be in real serious trouble.&#160; We need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ULI Presentation File (June 24th 2010)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 13:07:30 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Handouts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentation file from my recent speaker session at ULI&#160;San Diego.&#160; Click here to download the handout.
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		<title>Week 4 Tip:  5 Questions to Travel With</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/10.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How well are you travelling?&#160;That&#8217;s a question I love to ask teams when starting to work with them, as it is the beginnings of getting them thinking about their agility as an organization.&#160;I usually get answers somewhere in the mix of &#8220;not too bad&#8221;.&#160;Then I ask them, &#8220;how do you know?&#8221; to which I get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 3 Tip:  Assigning Accountability Buddies</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/11.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accountability has always been tough but is getting tougher.&#160;As The Traffic of Dynamic Complexity has increased in our daily lives, we can feel overwhelmed and gridlocked.&#160;As a result, things don&#8217;t get done that needed to get done, which anybody could have done (Anybody, Anybody?).

In recent times we have had wave after wave of dynamic complexity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 2 Tip:  Cats &#038; Dogs &#8230; structure influences bahavior</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/14.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:19:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things are so elegantly simple (Simplicity &#38; Complexity),&#160;they are almost embarrassingly so, which is why most people don&#8217;t do them.&#160;As a result, they can often be left unnecessarily struggling with the complexity of things and wondering why things aren&#8217;t changing.

One of the most complex, core aspects of your business is your culture and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 1 Tip:  How is Your Gearbox of Meetings?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/16.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:23:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like it or not, the portfolio of meetings&#160;you run is the&#160;gearbox of your business.&#160; Meetings&#160;are the collective mecahnism&#160;via which everything else meshes together, with the frequency&#160;and&#160;quality of communication, collaboration and coordination you need as a team for organizational agility.&#160;

Unfortunately, unless you have&#160;some&#160;kind of workflow&#160;management software system in your business (and good luck trying to implement [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vistage Resource Speaker Presentation File</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/17.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presentation file&#160;from my Vistage Resource Speaker Topic.&#160; Click here to download.&#160;
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		<title>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys (2-sided-card-stock handout)</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/18.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:45:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first 2-sided-card-stock handout of Architecting BREAKTHOUGH! Journeys.&#160;&#160;Click here to download the handout.
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		<title>Journey-Judgment Opportunity Assessment &#038; 90 Day Plan (2-sided-card-stock handout)</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/19.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/19.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The second 2-sided-card-stock handout of the Journey-Judgment Opportunity Assessment &#38; 90 Day Plan to begin achitecting a BREAKTHROUGH!&#160; Click here to download the handout.
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		<title>Summary Graphic &#038; Model (2-sided-card-stock handout)</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/20.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/20.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A third&#160;2-sided-card-stock handout of the summary graphic and model.&#160; Click here to download the handout.
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		<title>Booklinks:  In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility - are you Ready, Willing &#038; Able?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/21.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/21.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Booklinks</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In here you will find&#160;the companion links from the book, &#34;In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility - are you Ready, Willing &#38; Able?&#34; organized in numerical order in which they appear in the book and by chapter/page number.&#160; Each link will take you to additional content, materials and resources as refereneced in the book.&#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHERPA-Sense</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/22.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 19:42:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The "ins" and "outs" of Breakthrough Leadership</category>
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		<title>Fast-Cycle Teamwork</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/23.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 16:24:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fast-cycle teamwork is at the core of our organizational agility, for which we need to rev-up the frequency of our communication, collaboration and coordination as a team.&#160; Here is a downloadable article, which you can also share with your team to explain as part of applying these ideas:&#160; Fast-Cycle Teamwork - what can we learn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting on Your 3-D Glasses</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/24.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:27:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<title>The Longitudinal Dimension of Journey Orientation</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/25.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<title>Week 25 Tip:  Triage - an ongoing, dynamic process of managing attention span</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/26.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/26.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When faced with situations in which the demands for resources far exceed supply and circumstances are unfolding dynamically in unpredictable ways, we have no choice but to triage.&#160; Here are two definitions of &#8220;triage&#8221;:

In Crisis Management: 
The sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients and especially battle and disaster victims according to a system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 24 Tip:  The Power of Metaphors</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/27.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If a picture is worth a thousand words, a metaphor is worth a thousand pictures&#8221;, says Daniel Pink in his book, &#8220;A Whole New Mind &#8211; moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age&#8221;.&#160; He goes on to say:
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&#8220;In a complex world, mastery of metaphor has become ever more valuable.&#160; Human thought processes are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think “Agile Software Development” for the “Soft-ware” of Organizational Agility</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/28.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/28.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:47:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some of the leading edge thinking and research into organizational agility comes (not surprisingly)&#160;from the field of software development&#160; and the &#8220;Agile Software Development&#8221; set of methodologies, principles and tools.

As explained in great detail at Wikipedia: Agile Software Development, because software is at the heart of a business&#8217; capability and capacity for agility these days, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anybody, anybody?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/13.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably seen this poem about four characters: Anybody, Somebody, Everybody &#38; Nobody:&#160; 

&#34;A Poem About Responsibility&#34; by Charles Osgood
There was a most important job that needed to be done, 
And no reason not to do it, there was absolutely none.
But in vital matters such as this, the thing you have to ask
Is who exactly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Month Six Process Step:  Path-Finding Review</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/29.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Annual Calendar of 12 Monthly Process-Steps</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Month Six&#160;of our Fiscal Year (June for many of us) is a time&#160;for a Path-Finding&#160;Review.
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		<title>Week 23 Tip:  If Walls Could Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/30.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 07:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look around your business at how well the wall space is being used, which is often one of the most under-utilized assets in your business.&#160; What if your walls could talk with more real-time, on-line-all-the-time information about your business, such as:


An array of graphs providing a dash-board of key metrics
A whiteboard in each department&#160; subdivided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 22 Tip:  The Power of Pictures</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/31.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/31.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 12:44:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn to draw!&#160; That&#8217;s one of the recommendations from Daniel Pink in his book, &#8220;A Whole New Mind &#8211; moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age&#8221;.&#160; He reminds us that, &#8220;a picture is worth a thousand words&#8221;, saying:

&#8220;What&#8217;s in greatest demand today isn&#8217;t analysis but synthesis &#8211; seeing the big picture and crossing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 21 Tip:  The Power of 3</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/32.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/32.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 07:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three is a powerful number which our breakthrough thinking can pivot around - keeping the elegant simplicity of &#8220;3&#8221; in mind helps us understand and solve complex problems.&#160; When wrestling with complex problems here are some hip-pocket ways to tap into breakthrough thinking which can come from the power of 3:

A Middle Road/3rd Way
Whenever you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Agility - turning things upside-down, back-to-front and inside-out</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/33.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/33.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 06:02:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>The "ins" and "outs" of Breakthrough Leadership</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our organizational agility depends upon our mental agility, individually and collectively, to be able to pivot our breakthrough thinking in creative ways, unlocking new perspectives, possibilities and options.&#160;As we expand beyond the simple approaches outlined in The Power of 3, it is useful to think of mental agility in three progressive categories:

Turning things upside-down, back-to-front [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Friends with Organizational Agility</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/34.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/34.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 06:45:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, &#8220;when you need a friend, it&#8217;s too late to make one&#8221;.&#160; 
Make friends with organizational agility before it&#8217;s too late.&#160; When you find yourself in a situation in which you need agility as your friend, or a new level of agility than you have needed before, it&#8217;s too late, because:


Agility doesn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 20 Tip:  The Next 100 Days &#038; &#8220;Clean-Sheet-Ability&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/35.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/35.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you walk into assuming some new kind of responsibility on day 1, that&#8217;s when you get to display what I call&#160; your &#8220;clean-sheet-ability&#8221; &#8211; the ability to inherit a clean-sheet of responsibility for a situation and start linking and accumulating thoughts, questions, decisions and actions from moment one &#8211; in the first few hours, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Cash-Flow by Reducing Wheel$pin &#038; Increasing Tra¢tion, for cents on the dollar</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/36.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/36.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 09:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In particular in these turbulent, uncertain times, when our approach to execution excellence isn&#8217;t clicking well, we experience Wheel$pin, which costs us a fortune in avoidable-costs&#160;and opportunity-costs:
$ Avoidable-Costs:&#160;&#160;things taking longer than they should, costing more than they could, incurring more waste and rework than they should;
$ Opportunity-Costs: revenue and cost opportunities we didn&#8217;t see coming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 19 Tip:  5th Week</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/37.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/37.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 08:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=127</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week was a &#8220;5th Week&#8221; for me.&#160; What do I mean by that?
I design my monthly work pattern/schedule around a 4 week month and yet there are 13 weeks in each quarter, so one of the months has a 5th week in it - or some might call it a 13th week.&#160; You might [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traction Planning for the Agility Advantage</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/38.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/38.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Traditional &#8220;Strategic Planning &#38; Implementation&#8221; tends to go something like this:


Deciding upon our long term strategic mission, vision and key success measures, where long-term might be 3-5 or 5-10 years &#8211; let&#8217;s assume 5 years for the sake of discussion; 
Deducing our annual goals for the coming annual period, making sure they are SMART goals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Agility by Design</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/39.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/39.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 05:04:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=125</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Agility doesn&#8217;t happen by accident, it happens by design.&#160; We might be tempted to think that &#8220;keeping things loose, unstructured and organic around here&#8221; is the best way to be agile.&#160; Wrong, unless a chaotic stampede is what you are looking for.&#160;&#160; We can&#8217;t afford for things to be too loose, unstructured and organic if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Month Five Process-Step:  Quarterly Traction Review</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/40.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 05:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Annual Calendar of 12 Monthly Process-Steps</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=123</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Month Five&#160;of our Fiscal Year (May for many of us) is a time&#160;for another&#160;Quarterly Traction Review.

i)&#160;&#160;Team-Based Review of the&#160;Traction Plan.

Typically a half-day session of the executive team
Champions to present their boxes/pages of the Traction Plan for which they are responsible
Everyone will want to be impressed with their progress and pride-of-ownership of thie boxes/pages.

ii)&#160;Reviewing the Strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 18 Tip:  3 Days, 3 Weeks, 3 Months</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/41.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the face of a&#160;complex systemic problem requiring a&#160;systemic solution, it can feel like a daunting mountain to climb.&#160; If we are not careful, we tend to focus on the peak and the big fix solution which that represents, working backwards&#160;from that future with no clear path of how on earth we will ever achieve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Going in the Dark</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/42.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/42.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=120</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While &#34;beginning with the end in mind&#34; is still a good idea, developing the advantage of&#160;organizational agility these days also demands a willingness to get going in the dark,&#160;letting the sun rise on the path.

A personal story will illustrate (which you can also listen to&#160;in the last part of a&#160;5 minute video).&#160; Before getting&#160;married, my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HFMA-San Diego (April 23rd 2009), Strategic Planning &#038; Execution for Uncertain Times</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/43.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/43.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The presentation file from my recent speaker session at HFMA San Diego.&#160; Click here to download the handout.
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		<title>UCSD Rady School of Management (April 21st 2009) Global Business Strategy Class</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/44.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/44.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I used the Execution Excellence model as the accumulation of my insight into the challenge executives face in the driving seat of organizational agility these days, and the skills they need to be mastering detail complexity and dynamic complexity.&#160; 
Using this Execution Excellence model as a&#160;backdrop, we reviewed:

My career path which helped me accumulate these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Cash-is-King, then the Crown (head-gear) is Organizational Agility!</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/45.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/45.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:17:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=116</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The head-gear worn by the king is the crown.&#160; Cash is King, still - it always had been and it always will be.&#160; Some things&#160;never change -&#160;in bad times, in good times and in great times,&#160;surviving and thriving is about not running out of cash!&#160; The crowning head-gear has changed though - what did the&#160;crown [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 17 Tip:  Hold a Workshop to Educate Your Team</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/46.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 07:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=114</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
Would your executives agree?
&#34;Organizational Agility is a core differentiator in today&#8217;s rapidly changing business environment&#34; -&#160;that&#8217;s the number 1 conclusion from a recent (March 2009) report from the Economist Intelligence Unit.&#160; Nearly 90% of the executives surveyed (349 business executives from 8 countries, including the US, 19 industries and with revenues ranging from under $500M [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 16 Tip:  Hitting Singles</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/47.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/47.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 14:29:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=112</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These weekly tips are to encourage you to &#34;hit singles&#34; - each week, to single out one thing which, in addition to everything else you already have going on, you are going to hit hard to begin brewing up a breakthrough (the home run which will eventually come).&#160; 52 weeks of singles will add up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organizational Agility - Lost in Translation?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/48.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/48.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;The message is coming across loud and clear: &#160;

&#34;Organizational Agility is a core differentiator in today&#8217;s rapidly changing business environment&#34; - that&#8217;s the number one conclusion from a recent (March 2009) report from the Economist Intelligence Unit, entitled, &#8220;Organizational Agility:&#160; how business can survive and thrive in turbulent times&#8221;.&#160; Nearly 90% of the executives surveyed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 15 Tip:  Are you Tickling or Tackling Issues?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/49.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/49.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you truly &#34;tackling&#34; issues or just &#34;tickling&#34; them every once in a while and wondering why not much has changed?&#160; Systemic problems require systemic solutions - we have to be tackling&#160;the whole and the parts of the system in an organized, simultaneous manner, to orchestrate a breakthrough and allow&#160;system performance to&#160;pop to the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Month Four Process-Step:  The 3Rs - Re-aligning, Re-enrolling &#038; Re-engaging</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/50.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/50.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:44:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Annual Calendar of 12 Monthly Process-Steps</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=121</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Month Four&#160;of our Fiscal Year (April for many of us) is a time&#160;to practice the 3Rs of Re-aligning, Re-enrolling &#38; Re-engaging our team, broadly and deeply across our organization.

&#160;
i)&#160; Re-aligning the team with any steering-shifts coming out of last month&#8217;s Semi-Annual Strategic Review (Month Three Process-Step:&#160; Semi Annual Strategic Review).
ii)&#160;&#160;Re-enrolling the team in the&#160;journey, from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 14 Tip:  Nameless, Rankless Debriefs</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/51.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/51.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=96</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Agility requires constant organizational learning and institutionalizing those lessons learned, so that history has less chance of repeating itself, even if it is well disguised.&#160; Any time history remotely repeats itself, that is wheelspin&#160;by definition,&#160;which could have been avoided if we had more traction on continuous improvement and&#160;institutionalizing lessons learned.&#160;&#160;The nameless, rankless debrief can help [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 13 Tip:  Compound Interest &#038; The 1% Solution to Productivity Problems</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/52.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/52.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:00:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=93</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Achieving breakthroughs is hard work -&#160;by definition we are trying to&#160;create systemic solutions to systemic problems which don&#8217;t&#160;happen by accident.&#160; We are typically gridlocked with insufficient time, money and resources.&#160; To unlock the gridlock,&#160;we need to employ the principle of compound interest and the&#160;1% solution.


The 1% Solution:&#160; Looking for a small change you can make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Options, Futures &#038; Degrees of Freedom</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/53.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/53.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recurring and rigorous strategy conversation is about having options. The further up and out we expand the envelope of our strategy conversation then the more options we have &#8211; &#8220;up&#8221; in terms of the altitude of our strategic thinking/ conversation and &#8220;out&#8221; in terms of the time-horizon of our strategic thinking/conversation (Execution Excellence - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Week 12 Tip:  Holding a Morning Meeting - just do it!</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/54.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/54.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Weekly Tip</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Alan Mulally, the CEO of Ford, can do it, you sure as heck can!&#160; Hold a morning meeting (or a daily huddle at some other time of day) that is.&#160; As reported in an article in this week&#8217;s BusinessWeek Magazine (Ford&#8217;s Savior, March 16th, 2009):

&#160;&#34;When Mulally first instituted the weekly Business Plan Review system, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revving-Up Organizational Agility - what are you doing to massively shrink your organizational OODA Loop?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/55.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=100</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
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		<title>Do You Have a Tiger Team?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/56.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 12:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Does your team have what it takes to be a tiger?&#160; I love the&#160;series of advertisements Accenture has progressively created with Tiger Woods, which speak directly to our work.

Here is a great series of graphics about Mastering the Challenge of the &#34;and&#34;

Agility and Stability
Power and Leverage 
Playing it Straight&#160;and&#160;Staying Ahead of the Curve 
Heart and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expecting &#038; Managing the Unexpected</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/57.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
These days, we must be comfortable being uncomfortable, expecting the&#160;unexpected and being&#160;ready,&#160;willing and able to&#160;manage things as they unfold.
In their 2007 book,&#160;&#160;&#34;Managing the Unexpected &#8211; Resilient Performance in an Age of Uncertainty&#34;,&#160;Karl Weick &#38; Kathleen Sutcliffe put it this way:

&#34;Most organizations experience unexpected events all the time.&#160;These dynamic and uncertain times raise the questions of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q7: From an Execution Standpoint, how do service businesses differ from product based businesses?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/58.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/58.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 06:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
At a macro level. at 30,000 feet, a business is a business is a business.&#160;We develop stuff, we sell stuff and we support stuff.&#160;I think it was Peter Drucker who said something like, &#8220;95% of all businesses are the same&#8221;.&#160;Clearly, as we get down into the weeds of product businesses vs service businesseses (or businesses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Dangerous Detours &#038; 10 Mental Modes to Avoid Them</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/59.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/59.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We can easily veer off track of the journey to mastery of our organizational agility.&#160; There are 5 Dangerous Detours (with tragic consequences) and 10 Mental Modes&#160;Avoid Them, outlined in this category of blogs.
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		<title>Q6: Can your discuss any execution or agility challenge(s) that are particular to non-profit agencies in the start-up phase?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/60.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/60.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 05:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
I have worked with a lot of not-for-profits and my experience is that the generic challenges of organizational agility and execution excellence are the same.&#160;Every business, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, has specific issues and that&#8217;s part of the process, to judge where the business is at in its specific journey and what the specific priority [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Half-Brained (Left or Right)</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/61.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/61.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 04:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=81</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can easily end up being half-brained, with too much empasis either left or right, each being bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
There are&#160;2 key Mental Modes&#160;to avoid this Dangerous Detour:

A Whole-Brain/Whole-Mind/Whole-Person Challenge 
The Power of Visual Tools &#38; Metaphors 

&#160;A Whole-Brain/Whole-Mind/Whole-Person Challenge
Being In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q5: What&#8217;s your best practice for getting an executive team to fully execute what it commits to?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/62.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/62.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 1999 23:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=40</guid>
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Firstly, it&#8217;s about recognizing and teaching Execution Excellence as a system and a discipline.&#160; If an executive team is still working within a mental model of &#8220;execution&#8221; as detailed planning, tactics and dotting the &#8220;i&#8221;s and crossing the &#8220;t&#8221;s, then you are fighting a losing battle.&#160; They will continue to experience constant white-water, which will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity this Side of Complexity</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/63.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/63.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=83</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
We can easily default to simplicity this side of complexity, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.
&#160;
There are 2 key Mental Modes&#160;to avoid this Dangerous Detour:

Elegant Simplicty on the far Side of Complexity
Detail Complexity and Dynamic Complexity

Elegant Simplicty on the far Side of Complexity
There are two types of simplicty - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Q4: Buy-In vs Alignment &#8230; which is the key?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/64.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/64.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
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Yes!&#160; Both are key.&#160; While they are very inter-related, they are also different.&#160; Buy-in is more cultural and about commitment and cooperation.&#160; Alignment is more directional and about things pointing in the same direction and meshing well.&#160; No amount of one makes up for a lack of the other.&#160; 
Execution Excellence is an integrated system [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving into the Pressure of Premature Closure</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/65.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/65.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=85</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can easily give into the presure of premature closure, which is bad news and a dangeous detour with potentially tragic consequences.

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		<title>Q3: I work in the staffing industry - with all the layoff&#8217;s how do I approach companies on using temporary staff to fill in the gaps?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/66.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/66.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 02:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=37</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Like anything we offer, the key is a compelling value-proposition, which I define as:&#160;&#160; Value-for-Money, factored by Risk/Probability, all teeter-tottering on Trust.&#160; 
&#183;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Value: the impact you will have in improving the customer&#8217;s business, directly and indirectly
&#183;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Money: the total cost of the customer&#8217;s investment, not just your price
&#183;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Risk/Probability: the probability that the project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Either/Or&#8221; Propositions</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/67.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/67.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:40:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=87</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can easily lapse into &#34;either/or&#34; propositions, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic cosnequences.
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		<title>Q2:  Bottom-up buy-in and execution - how do we penetrate the forklift barrier?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/68.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/68.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 01:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
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Yes, I believe organizational agility demands a bottom-up approach, not least of all to achieve the buy-in you mention, in addition to a top-down approach as well. &#160;It&#8217;s an &#8220;and&#8221; proposition.&#160; Bottom-up and top-down.&#160; It&#8217;s also about planning forwards-from-the-present and backwards-from-the-future and a number of other &#8220;and&#8221; propositions as well.&#160; Our job as breakthrough leaders [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Talking Ourselves Out of Planning</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/69.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/69.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:43:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=89</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We can easily talk ourselves out of planning, which is bad news and a dangerous detour with potentially tragic consequences.

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		<title>Q1:  Would you please describe the strategic planning process you employ with businesses and how do you link it to execution?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/70.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/70.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=30</guid>
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&#160;If your experience is anything like mine, conventional &#8220;strategic planning and implementation&#8221; doesn&#8217;t work well and, often times, the word &#8220;execution&#8221; is used inter-changeably with &#8220;implementation&#8221;, relegating it to the level of detailed planning, tactics and dotting the &#8220;i&#8221;s and crossing the &#8220;t&#8221;s.&#160; In these uncertain, turbulent times, we need to understand the whole problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FAQ:  &#8220;Why do we need to do Traction Planning if we already have an Annual Plan of SMART Goals?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/71.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/71.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 00:18:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Q &#038; A</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=98</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequently Asked Question:&#160; &#34;Why do we need a Traction Plan and an Annual Plan of Goals?&#34;&#160; and, in some cases, &#34;Why do we need a Traction Plan when we already have an Annual Plan of Corprate Goals?&#34;

The first answer is easy - &#34;because an Annual Plan of Corporate Goals is just that, Annual, whereas a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where Does Agility Come From?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/72.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/72.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:52:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=97</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the last time you experienced the benefits of organizational agility &#8211; your ability to cope with rapidly changing circumstances and navigate around avoidable-costs and opportunity-costs &#8211; think about where that agility came from.&#160; Typically, it didn&#8217;t just crop up that day, there and then, in the moment.&#160; Invariably, it came from some things that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fridays-with-Vistage Webinar (February 20th 2009):  Execution Excellence for Turbulent Times</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/73.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/73.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Handouts</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my recent Fridays-with-Vistage webinar to 500+ CEOs and senior Executives entitled, &#34;Execution Excellence for Uncertain Times:&#160; developing the advantage of organizational agility&#34;, we explored the challenges of these turbulent economic times.&#160;

Our ability to execute is at the core of our agility as an organization, which gets tested everyday, sometimes mildly and sometimes brutally.&#160; Many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Month Three Process-Step: Semi-Annual Strategic Review</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/74.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/74.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 15:32:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Annual Calendar of 12 Monthly Process-Steps</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
Month Three&#160;of our Fiscal Year (March&#160;for many of us) is a time&#160;for a Semi-Annual Strategic&#160;Review.
&#160;
i)&#160; Reviewing the strategy we formulated in our last Annual Strategic Review (month 9 of our fiscal year, September for many of us).

Typically a full-day review with&#160;the executive team

ii)&#160;&#160;Reviewing the traction we have created since and what we have learned along [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Month Two Process-Step:  Quarterly Traction Review</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/75.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/75.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 15:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Annual Calendar of 12 Monthly Process-Steps</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=43</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Month Two of our Fiscal Year (February for many of us) is a time&#160;for a Quarterly Traction Review.
&#160;

i)&#160;&#160;Team-Based Review of the&#160;Traction Plan.

Typically a half-day session of the executive team
Champions to present their boxes/pages of the Traction Plan for which they are responsible
Everyone will want to be impressed with their progress and pride-of-ownership of thie boxes/pages.

ii)&#160;Reviewing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 13 Driving Disciplines for being In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility and Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/76.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/76.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:27:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[
Corresponding to the&#160;13 elements of the Execution Excellence&#160;model, there are 13 Driving Disciplines for being In the Driving Seat of Organizational Agility and Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys.&#160; These 13 Driving Disciplines provide a basis for assessing our opportunities-for-improvement of our organizational agility and the breakthrough journey we are (or are not) architecting&#160;(Journey-Judgment Opportunity Assessment).&#160;&#160;The blogs in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The B of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/77.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/77.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=47</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Bringing Journey Orientation into focus.
&#160;
&#160;

Change has changed, becoming much more like a dynamic journey on a shifting landscape.&#160;The longitudinal dimension of journey orientation has emerged as a 3rd and primary dimension around which we must reframe our approach to translating strategy and execution into traction.&#160;This is essential for a new mindset/chassis of business acumen for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The first R of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/78.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/78.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=49</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reinforcing a Mindset of Operations Management.
&#160;
&#160;

In continuous process businesses, errors unfold rapidly and propagate quickly, often with disastrous consequences.&#160;High reliability operations management prevents crises management and all businesses are continuous process businesses to some degree.
The new Rules-of-the-Road:

All businesses are operationally intensive, whether they are product, service or knowledge intensive businesses with a&#160;visible assembly line or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The E of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/79.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/79.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2009 16:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=52</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Enhancing Strategic Productivity.
&#160;
&#160;
&#160;

Our productivity at a strategic level depends upon using an integrated framework and set of tools, to avoid overwhelm and formulate a progressive work product.&#160;The test of good strategic tools is how quickly we can pick up the conversation next time from where we left off last time.
The new Rules-of-the-Road:

These days, our strategic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The A of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/80.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/80.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jan 2009 16:07:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accentuating Short-Range Culture.
&#160;
&#160;
&#160;

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		<title>The K of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/81.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/81.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:11:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=55</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Keeping our Flight Planning envelope expanded to our full Execution Excellence agenda.
&#160;
&#160;

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		<title>The T of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/82.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/82.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">/?p=58</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tackling Operational Productivity.
&#160;
&#160;

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		<title>The first H of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/83.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/83.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holding a Recurring,&#160;Rigorous&#160;&#38; Rallying Strategy Process.
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		<title>The second R of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/84.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/84.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 16:20:11 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Re-engineering Structures, Processes &#38; Systems.
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		<title>The O of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/85.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/85.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:25:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Orchestrating a Goal-Setting Cascade &#38; Review Process.
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		<title>The U of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/86.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/86.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jan 2009 16:31:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unlocking &#38; Challenging Mental Models.
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		<title>The G of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/87.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/87.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:33:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guiding Leadership/Communication Skills &#38; Style.
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		<title>The second H of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/88.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:34:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Handling Accountability for Long-Range Culture.
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		<title>The ! of BREAKTHROUGH! stands for:</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/89.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/89.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 16:37:18 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Architecting BREAKTHROUGH! Journeys</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[!ntegrating our Enterprise Execution Capability &#38; Capacity.
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		<title>Month One Process-Step:  Opportunity Assessment</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/90.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/90.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:52:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Month One of our Fiscal Year (January for many of us) is a time to do an Opportunity Assessment:
&#160;
i)&#160; Taking stock of the year that just ended and the year which is just beginning.
ii) &#160;Using the Journey-Judgment Opportunity Assessment to assess our opportunities for improvement:

With our organizational agility and process of translating strategy and execution [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Productively Paranoid - can you trust your system?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/91.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/91.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizational Agility relies upon an integrated system of crucial components, interfacing and interacting with each other to provide you the agility you need, when you need it.&#160; Often times, we don&#8217;t know that we lack agility until it is too late (Making Friends with Organizational Agility).

It&#8217;s not because we don&#8217;t intuitively know what agility is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Management Model Out of Date?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/92.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Nov 2008 16:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>The "ins" and "outs" of Breakthrough Leadership</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;
As Gary Hamel says in his 2007 book, The Future of Management:
&#34;Management is out of date.&#160;Like the combustion engine, it&#8217;s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that&#8217;s not good.&#160;21st century challenges are testing the design limits of organizations around the world and are exposing the limitations of a management model that has failed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constant White-Water?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/93.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Nov 2008 22:55:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you experiencing a constant white-water ride?
&#160;You seem to be in a constant state of buffeting by unexpected events, hanging on tight as best you can to just go with the flow and unsure what&#8217;s around the next corner.&#160; There never seems to be any quiet water, even just an eddy you can circle out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Financial Accounting vs &#8220;Strategic Accounting&#8221; of your Business</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/94.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:35:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time, energy, attention, paperwork, systems, software and, above all else, discipline, do we invest in the financial accounting of our businesses?&#160; A lot.&#160; And by comparison, how much do we invest in the &#8220;strategic accounting&#8221; (translating strategy and execution into traction)&#160;of our business?

I always find it interesting as I work with CEOs and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Serious are You?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/3.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 01:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How serious are you ,individually and collectively, about being fully in the driving seat of your organizational agility, translating strategy and execution into traction?


It&#8217;s not something which you can just dabble with every once in a while (Dabbler, Obsessive, Hacker or Master?) - it is something we must master over time by plodding along, loving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fighter Pilot&#8217;s OODA Loop: Observe; Orient; Decide; Act.</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/95.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/95.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The OODA Loop is the essence of how fighter pilots are trained.&#160; It captures the idea of a never ending loop of Observing, Orienting, Deciding and Acting.&#160; Pilots are trained, trained again and trained some more, to master the detail complexity and dynamic complexity (see:&#160; change has changed) of piloting a fighter jet, to have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Luck is Where Preparation Meets Opportuinity</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/96.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/96.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 08:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For organizational agility we need luck on our side. If, as the saying goes, &#8220;luck is where preparation meets opportunity&#8221; then an ongoing strategy process is about the &#8220;preparation&#8221; part of that and being ever prepared. As others have said:

&#8220;Chance favors the prepared mind&#8221; (Louis Pasteur)
&#8220;Luck is not chance, it is toil&#8221; (Emily Dickenson)
&#8220;I am [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dabbler, Obsessive, Hacker or Master?</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/97.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/97.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 08:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Dangerous Detours &#038; Mental Modes to Avoid Them</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his 1992 book, Mastery, George Leonard defines mastery as, &#8220;the mysterious process during which what is at first difficult becomes progressively easier and more pleasurable through practice&#8221; and outlines the nature of the journey:

&#8220;There is no way around it. Learning any new skill involves relatively brief spurts of progress, each of which is followed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Traffic of Dynamic Complexity</title>
		<link>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/12.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/12.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what do we mean by &#8220;dynamic complexity&#8221;?
In his 1990 book, The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge said:

&#34;There are two types of complexity &#8211; detail complexity and dynamic complexity. The real leverage in most management situations lies in understanding dynamic complexity not detail complexity&#8221;

He goes on to say:


&#8220;The reason that sophisticated tools of forecasting and business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simplicity &#038; Complexity</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/15.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Keep it simple stupid&#8221; can be the KISS of death.&#160; Here&#8217;s why, as captured by one of my favorite quotes:

&#34;I wouldn&#8217;t give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity but I&#8217;d give my life for simplicity on the far side of complexity&#8221; (Oliver Wendell Holmes).


Simplicity this side of complexity is stupid simple and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy Tragedy</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/98.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 08:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>Journey Judgment</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time, energy, attention, paperwork, systems and, above all else, discipline do we invest in the financial accounting of our businesses?&#160; A lot.&#160; And by comparison, how much do we invest in the &#8220;strategic accounting&#8221; of our business?&#160; (The Financial Accounting vs &#34;Strategic Accounting&#34; of your Business) Or are we&#160;paying some degree of lip [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Divergence and Convergence</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/99.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 08:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ability to navigating a middle road of divergence and convergence Is increasingly essential these days. It&#8217;s a key &#8220;and&#8221; we have to master (see: Mastering the Challenge of the &#8220;and&#8221;) in the face of the changing nature of change (see: Change Has Changed).
It&#8217;s about our thinking, questions, decision and actions (see Strate&#8217;gems article: Executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering the Challenge of the “and”</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/100.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 08:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life used to be slow enough for &#8220;or&#8221; propositions to be OK &#8211; it was OK to be operational or strategic, short-term or long-term and leader or a manager.&#160; Not any more.&#160; Life has become too fast moving for that and the pace of change is accelerating all the time (see:&#160; Change Has Changed).&#160; Now [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change has Changed</title>
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		<comments>http://www.sherpaalliance.com/mikes-blog/2.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The nature of change itself has changed. &#160;It has become much more like a dynamic journey on a shifting landscape.&#160;
&#160;
In his 1999 book, Birth of the Chaordic Age, Dee Hock puts it this way:

&#8220;Fasten your seatbelts. The turbulence has scarcely begun. With accelerating speed, we&#8217;ve transcended boundary after boundary of diversity and complexity. The past [...]]]></description>
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