122. Mike Beer’s Model of Change
Concept
Mike Beer was a senior executive at Corning Glass who then joined the faculty of the Harvard Business School where I became acquainted with him. Mike had a wonderful balance/mixture of theoretical education and practical experience.13 And he is a warm, generous human being.
Mike developed a theory of change that he summarized in an equation, something which engineers might find attractive. Mike’s equation was:
Cp = (D x M x P ) > C
where Cp was the probability of change happening, D was dissatisfaction with the status quo, M was the clarity of a model and vision of the future and where we want to go and P was a process for managing the change. The C represented the cost of making the change. You can see ...
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