Whether you work in a business or the business of life, everyone from CEOs to high school students can gain from what they take from this story. . . companies should buy a copy for everyone from the CEO to the stock clerkI ordered and distributed sixty copies, evaluated its effect on our change effort, and then ordered five hundred more. . . . This is a gemThe penguins in this book will not only steal your heart, they’ll make you a smarter personThe huge international bestseller that puts change management insights into a easy-to-read fable format.
In Our Iceberg is Melting a simple fable about penguins illustrates how to conquer change, with profound lessons for working and living in an ever-changing world.
This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home – and pretty much no one listens to him.
The characters in this fable are like people we recognize, even ourselves. Their story is one of resistance to change and heroic action, confusion and insight, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It is a story that is occuring in different forms around us today – but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us.
Based on John Kotter's pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster and better, the lessons you can learn from this short and easy-to-read book will serve you well in your job, in your family and in your community. And these lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster and faster.
This edition celebrates ten years since the publication of this classic business fable with new and improved illustrations and a foreword by Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese?
John Kotter has been on the faculty at Harvard Business School since 1972. He is the author of eleven books that have won awards and honours, or have been business bestsellers. Professor Kotter gives speeches and seminars at Harvard and around the world.
Holger Rathgeber works for Becton Dickinson, one of the world's leading medical technology companies.
Section - i: Welcome Chapter - 1: Our Iceberg Will Never Melt Chapter - 2: The Iceberg Is Melting and Might Break Apart Soon!! Chapter - 3: What Do I Do Now? Chapter - 4: Problem? What Problem? Chapter - 5: I Cannot Do the Job Alone Chapter - 6: The Seagull Chapter - 7: Getting the Message Out Chapter - 8: Good News, Bad News Chapter - 9: The Scouts Chapter - 10: The Second Wave Chapter - 11: The Most Remarkable Change Chapter - 12: Changing and Succeeding Chapter - 13: The Eight Step Process of Successful Change Chapter - 14: The Role of Thinking and Feeling
