Jane Adamson
CEO, Sherpa Advisory
Jane Adamson is committed to leading and developing an organization to achieve superior results. She has the unique ability to view business globally, while focusing employees on the details and teamwork necessary for strategic success. She has been the president of two manufacturing/service organizations, sat on industry and professional boards, orchestrated the successful turnaround of a financially distressed organization, and implemented numerous performance management processes. She founded Sherpa Advisory, located in Phoenix, Arizona, to guide companies through the growth stages that require mid-size companies to “do” all the things that large companies do, but with limited resources. Company survival depends upon its leaders and members learning the skills of providing clear focus, team problem solving, implementing change, and executing for results.
Recent posts by Jane Adamson
Taming the Elephant in 2011
Posted on December 7th, 2010
2010 has been the year of the great stall. The world marketplace has shifted dramatically, and our society can’t stop talking, reading, and writing about it. Yet many of us haven’t gone much further than talk. We haven’t done anything yet. The decisions, changes, and actions needed to actually deal with the new marketplace have been [...]
The Cost of Chaos – Part III
Posted on November 2nd, 2010
Imagine that you have a huge digital billboard in your office. It’s something like the national debt clock, and it’s tracking something that is just as critical to your company’s future. It’s the money your organization wastes while trying to generate revenue: the cost of failed products, excess sales salaries, sales support, ads, promotions, campaigns, [...]
The Cost of Chaos – Part II
Posted on October 5th, 2010
You may be one of the fortunate few who has never needed to diet. Your clothes fit season after season. You’ve never sat through a Weight Watchers meeting or closed your eyes in the bakery. Enjoy your good fortune. For the rest of us, dieting is a way of life. We lose. It comes back. [...]
The World Isn’t Flat: Planning for a New 2011
Posted on September 7th, 2010
Can you imagine being alive in the late 1400s when Christopher Columbus *didn’t* sail off the edge of the world? After a lifetime of believing the world was flat, would you readily accept that it was round? Or is it possible that you might react as many others do when faced with a new reality [...]
