Sherpa Alliance

Does your team have what it takes to be a tiger?  I love the 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 "and"

• Agility and Stability
• Power and Leverage
• Playing it Straight and Staying Ahead of the Curve
• Heart and Nerve
• Seeing Things Simply and Seeing Things Fully
• Strategy and Exit Strategy
• Risk and Reward
• Information and Interpretation
• Plan and Backup Plan
• What You Did and What You Do Next
• Distractions
• Right Brain and Left Brain
• Thinker and Doer
• Think-Through and Follow-Through
• 163 Yards and 163.375 Yards
• Soloist and Duet
• Yin and Yang
• Logical and Technological 
• Investment and ROI
• Technique and Technology

You could print out some (or all) of these (they are available as full size versions if you click on them) and use them in different ways to accentuate the culture you are looking for (Acentuating Short-Range Culture)

• Maybe put them up in your conference room?
• Maybe get them framed and hand them out as awards to the person which most demonstrated that attribute this month, quarter or year. 
• Maybe use them to assign roles when in brainstorming meetings? 

Here is a series about Economic Adversity:

• How can you plan ahead when you can hardly see ahead?
• Why high performers shine even when the sun doesn’t
• Its not a setback, its a test

This is what our work is about.  Helping CEOs, Executives and their teams have the right mindset/chassis of business acumen for unconventional times.  In particular, helping you avoid the dangerous detours of veering off track from this mindset (Dangerous Detours and Mental Modes to Avoid Them).  Your organizational agility depends upon it and gets tested everyday, sometimes mildly and sometimes brutally.  How well is your organizational agility passing the test?  Do you have a Tiger Team?