Sherpa Alliance

As Gary Hamel says in his 2007 book, The Future of Management:

"Management is out of date. Like the combustion engine, it’s a technology that has largely stopped evolving and that’s not good. 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 to keep pace with the times. What ultimately constrains the performance of your organization is not its operating model, not its business model, buts its management model. 

So, the question is, how is your management model and is it out-of-date?  Are its design limits being tested, having failed to keep pace with the times?  How do you know?

• Are you experiencing wave after wave of dynamic complexity (The Traffic of Dynamic Complexity) washing over you?
• Does life seem like a constant white-water ride (Constant White-water?), with an increasing level of frustration, stress and FUD (fear, uncertainty and doubt)?
• Are you noticing that you are increasingly incurring the avoidable-costs and opportunity-costs of Wheel$pin (Reducing Wheel$pin & Increasing Tra¢tion, for cents on the dollar)?

Gary Hamel goes on to say:

"Management innovation is anything that substantially alters the way in which the work of management is carried out, or significantly modifies customary organizational forms, and, by so doing, advances organizational goals. Put simply, management innovation changes the way managers do what they do, and does so in a way that enhances organizational performance.   Given the power of management innovation to deliver peer-beating performance, it is odd that so few companies possess a well-honed process for continuous management innovation. Today, every CEO claims to be a champion of innovation – so why the barn-sized blind spot when it comes to management innovation. I believe there are three likely explanations. First, most managers don’t see themselves as inventors. Second, many executives doubt that bold management innovation is actually possible. [Third] Most managers see themselves as pragmatic doers, not starry eyed dreamers".

That’s what our work is about - we are management innovators for the bottom-line of organizational agility, breakthrough leadership and architecting breakthrough journeys.  We are interpreters, translators and facilitators of a new mindset/chassis of business acumen (In The Driving Seat®) - a management model keeping pace with the times.