Sherpa Alliance

Change has changed.  The nature of change itself has changed.  It has become much more like a dynamic journey on a shifting landscape.  We need to be putting on our 3-D glasses for our 3-D challenge.

We are supposed to be In the Driving Seat, of things, translating strategy and execution into traction, with the organizational agility to cope so that nothing gets lost in translation.  With increasing turbulence, uncertainty and volatility that gets increasingly challenging, we can easily lose traction and suffer wheel$pin, which costs us a fortune.  Sometimes with life and death consequences.  When there is less and less we can count on with any certainty, we must be able to count on our organizational agility to cope no matter what. 

Leadership and management is a three dimensional challenge.  It always has been and always will be.  But many managers, executives and CEOs are stuck in a two dimensional mindset.   Our education, training and development systems tend to reduce things into 2D – just pick up any business book, and more than likely it will be full of 2D flow charts, models and frameworks.  Yet, In the Driving Seat of our cars, we are mastering a whole person challenge in 3D, including an acute orientation to the third and longitudinal dimension of our journey which is unfolding real-time.  We are able to be strategic and operational, a leader and manager, long-term and short-term oriented, all at the same time, with hardly giving it a second thought, while changing the channel on the radio, making a cell phone call (hands-free, of course), talking to a passenger and thinking about life, usually arriving at our desired destination, safely, on time, and ready for what’s next.  We generally have the organizational agility to cope, no matter what.  Amazing!

So, when we park in the lot outside our office and walk inside, what happens to these natural abilities?  How do we help managers, executives and CEOs be in the same mode In the Driving Seat of their businesses as they are when they are In the Driving Seat of their cars?  Its about helping them put on their 3-D Glasses.