What’s Your Iceberg?

Thursday, March 8, 2012
I've always been a fan of Harvard Business Professor John Kotter's change management work, especially Leading Change and Our Iceberg is Melting. The concept of “the iceberg” is an interesting one. In a fable about penguins, Mr. Kotter demonstrates the steps to successfully managing possibly catastrophic change – in this case, the penguin’s iceberg home is breaking up. The question every executive team should ask is “What is our iceberg?”

There is one group I can point to that is actively doing something about the iceberg around us – the pilot sites for the "Strategy . . .