Our Iceberg is Melting

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	• Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber, ... St. Martin's Press, 2006 - 160 pages average customer review:based on 63 reviews view larger image
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Keep migrating?

This book is an excellent and powerful message to understand and manage change especially in turbulent times of the current century. Prof Kotter's earlier books on the theory of understanding and managing change might appear a little overwhelming for an ordinary reader. This book fills the void since the entire concept and framework is brought out in the form of a simple and interesting story of a colony of penguins residing on an iceberg oblivious of the fact that their home is actually melting. If they do nothing about it, their sweet and comfortable home for decades could soon break into pieces and all of them would be easy prey for their predators in the icy waters of Antarctica. The book certainly deserves praise for taking this situation forward and to bring it to a happy ending where the penguins learn to migrate to newer and safer icebergs, using the eight step framework of change.

However, we need to ask a broader question on the root cause of why the iceberg is melting in the first place. While it is a good setting to narrate a story around penguins, the point is that we humans are responsible for the irresponsible plundering of earth's natural resources that has led to global warming. In the story of penguins, the colony migrates to another iceberg. Does this mean that we humans should, taking the analogy further, prepare ourselves to migrate to another planet? My point is that Prof Kotter should now look deeper into the question of "Why change if we collectively behave well?" One needs to embrace change caused by technology, globalization and the better aspects of progress. But if change, especially the kind that is painful and tragic in nature is caused by human wrongdoings and the sufferers are a totally different section of society or a continent, Prof Kotter's current prescription and methodology may not work.

Despite these comments, this book deserves a 5 Star rating for what it intends to convey.

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Our Iceberg is Melting

Excellent and fast read. Anyone in a leadership position will love this book. All of the key characters in your organization are exemplified on the "ice".

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Great Read

Found it to be both entertaining and educational, it's a perfect balance of real world application packaged in an easy to read book. I would pickup Leading Change for more information on the items that are discussed in this book.

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