Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Product Information

But, I think that it will specially work for organizations, businesses, and other type of groups, because it is about changing in a group. This quote caught my attention because I realized that we don't change by the data, but from what we have learned by experiences that had an impact on us. I enjoy business books in general, but among my favorites are the "story"-based books, such "The One-Minute Manager", "Who Moved My Cheese", "Inside the Magic Kingdom", "The Go-Giver", "It's Not About You", and others. Alice points out that, if disaster strikes, many penguins will die, and their relatives won’t take kindly to leaders who explain their inaction on the grounds that they weren’t absolutely positive that there was a problem. There is a certain degree of tolerance that people often have in thinking about chance as it applies to animals (like mice wondering about who moved their cheese) that they do not have when it comes to thinking about change that others want to push on them.

The book deals with all sorts of characters that we come across in corporate environments when facing a minor or major change management. The focus of this book is leading change, and is based on John Kotter's "8 Steps to Leading Change" originally outlined in his book "Leading Change". She was a fear-monger who sold the concepts of imminent danger and immediate threat to scare people into action. Kotter invites the reader to imagine how others are relating to the same situation and how different responses may create tension in groups. When you learn from experience, most likely, you are able to do a better job when it comes to putting in practice.

In the final chapters, the authors suggest how groups can learn from the penguin colony’s experience. This is the kind of book that you might give to people who are uneducated, ignorant, and not very literate. Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions is a business fable about penguins who learn to work together to deal with a dangerous change to their environment, a lesson that also applies to people in the workplace and in organizations. I just ask myself how much domination can we expect from an executive class that tries to instill loyalty by humiliating employees through forcing them to attend motivational offsite meetings based on this kind of drivel.

Their delightfully told journey illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change – one with leadership skills, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency. A fun and interesting fable using the story of a colony of Emperor Penguins as a metaphor for how an organization can go about making a needed change.The use of the penguin fable allows the authors to present these steps in the context of a story that illustrates how the steps work together in enabling the penguins to make a significant change in their lives. Removing barriers such as inefficient processes and hierarchies provides the freedom necessary to work across silos and generate real impact. A good book about change management narrated in a very simplistic language and in the method of storytelling.

I know this is not true, but this book is based on real stories, that putted in practice the eight steps. How you feel about this book will depend in large part on how you feel about business fables that seek to promote some sort of message about being flexible and appreciating the need for change in general. g. their diving depth, lung capacity, and reliance on numbers for warmth) but he neglected one crucial fact that destroys the premise of his fable. Louis’s team responds quickly, providing counterpoint to negative speakers, encouraging adults to join the project, and inspiring children with stories of heroes who help others. Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the change - one with leadership skills, credibility, communications ability, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency.

When this book was distributed to a lot of employees prior to being laid-off or those who have to take on more jobs as they were retained in the downsizing companies, they said ”does the management mean that we have to behave like mice and accept their offer even if it is disadvantageous to us? Some people may consider me an old corporate dog but I can still learn new tricks and in my field of specialization that is information technology (I.

Not entirely coincidentally, the day that the invitation to the offsite meeting for an all-day training exercise based on the book showed up on my calendar, was the day that I gave notice. I recommend this book to anyone involved in leading any sort of change, whether it be in your business, a local organization, your church, or even your personal life. But again, this book has an agenda to push positive attitudes towards change and to delegitimize those who tend to be resistant or hostile to change. A volunteer army needs a coalition of effective people – born of its own ranks – to guide it, coordinate it, and communicate its activities.You will take this as a work bible if you want to be part of a big change and that your contribution is being desired and valued. On the surface they read like the stories of our childhood employing simple vocabulary to describe everyday contexts to which we can all relate. Fred and Alice visit the Leadership Council with their concerns, but the Council balks and wants merely to start a committee to investigate. He is co-founder of Kotter International, a change management and strategy execution firm that helps organizations engage employees in a movement to drive change and reach sustainable results. Colony members propose lots of solutions, from drilling down into the iceberg to relieve the pressure to moving onto the Antarctic continent itself.