Our Iceberg Is Melting
Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
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- 8,49 €
Publisher Description
In Our Iceberg is Melting, a simple fable about penguins encapsulates vital truths about embracing change and illustrates how adaptability can yield prosperity, while resistance can lead to peril, in an ever-changing world.
What if everything you knew was about to change?
For generations, a penguin colony thrived on their iceberg - until one brave, curious mind uncovers a looming catastrophe. His desperate pleas for action are met with the all-too-human resistance to anything new.
Our Iceberg Is Melting provides a powerful guide for navigating personal and professional transformation. Through relatable characters, this fable illuminates human nature, the challenge of resistance, and the incredible power of collective action. It is a story that is occurring in different forms around us today – but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us.
Drawing on John Kotter's renowned insights, this concise book equips you with the wisdom to drive faster, smarter change in your work, family and community – essential in today's relentless world.
This special tenth anniversary edition features new and improved illustrations and a foreword by Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese?
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Harvard Business School professor Kotter, author of the bestselling Leading Change (1996), teams up with executive Rathgeber to offer his contribution to the "business fable" genre. Kotter presents his framework for an effective corporate change initiative through the tale of a colony of Antarctic penguins facing danger-inspired, perhaps, by today's real-life global warming crisis (or, perhaps, by March of the Penguins' box office). Under the leadership of one particularly astute bird, a small team of penguins with varied personalities and leadership skills implement a thoughtful plan for coaxing the other birds in their colony through a time of necessary but wrenching change. The logic of Kotter's fictional framework is wobbly at times-his characters live and act very much like real penguins except that one carries a briefcase and another ("the Professor") cites articles from scholarly journals-and the whimsical tone will not be to everyone's taste. However, this light, quick read should fulfill its intended purpose: to serve as a springboard for group discussions about corporate culture, group dynamics and the challenges of change.
