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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 64 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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Excellent

This is a must read for anybody who is going through change in a company, or life for that matter. It is a very easy read with big font and one could easily finish reading the whole book in a day.

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Use to initiate a change conversation

This penguin based fable is cute, quick to read, and conveys the steps and issues that are common to organizational change initiatives - but does it add anything to the knowledge base? Well, no! When I first saw the book's title, sub-title (Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions) and the lead author (Kotter) I was hoping for a strategic discussion on how to help an organization drive continuous change before the urgency becomes evident. You know, Kotter on staying ahead of the curve - everybody's strategic iceberg really is melting these days. This was more than the authors intended to accomplish, even if the sub-title indicated otherwise. The book is recommended for organizations needing a discussion on the issues and steps involved in a change initiative.

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A cute fable on dealing with change

A cute little fable with penguins as the main characters who are dealing with drastic change - their home on an iceberg is melting. Each of the characters represent how we humans deal with change.Penguins Toob

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