ABSTRACT
In making changes to the way it works, the new organization will - in the words of leading business psychologist Dr John Nicholson of Nicholson McBride - be trying to ‘sashay on the ice-floe’ (Elmwood Advantivity Conference, 21 May 1997). Nicholson, an expert on change management, coined this evocative metaphor to suggest people who can walk confidently, even arrogantly, across a landscape that is moving all the time at unpredictable speeds so that you never know where you are or at what point you started from. The ice-floe analogy accurately describes the process of change that so many companies face. The word ‘sashay’ implies that you needn’t be diffident - you can stride into the future with a greater degree of confidence.
