Day Seven
Part One
April 14, 2008


The Great Penguin Caper Chapters One & Two:

Our great hosts and new partners in Egypt, the ZAD Group, took the day off on Monday to accompany Greg and I on an adventure around Cairo. As you may know the work I do in Change Management is based on John Kotter's book Our Iceberg Is Melting. The icon for the story and for managing change after the class is a penguin, and we carry with us huge blow up penguins. Our expedition on this day included an attempt to take elicit photos of the penguins at the Great Pyramids.... just for the fun of it. We had a blast. The security at the gate put up a big fuss, but our leader, Dr. Amr Fass, pulled out all stops, twisted some arms and greased some palms. I captured some video of the process. Here are the first couple chapters:

That's Greg Kaiser, my business partner in the Hawaiin shirt, and Sherif one of the ZAD crew in red. And here's us in the van after a tourism police officer got in and rode with us to the main office.