Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

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A volunteer army needs a coalition of effective people – born of its own ranks – to guide it, coordinate it, and communicate its activities.

A good book about change management narrated in a very simplistic language and in the method of storytelling. The book helps businesses and communities move from old to new territories to cope with their own environment. The main theme of the book is how change can be very difficult and it should be worked out with good planning and team effort. The 8 phases of change management according to Kottler are: John P. Kotter, world-renowned expert on leadership, is the author of many books, including Leading Change, Our Iceberg is Melting, The Heart of Change, and his latest book, That's Not How We Do It Here!. He is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School, and a graduate of MIT and Harvard. 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. He and his wife Nancy live in Boston, Massachusetts. Removing barriers such as inefficient processes and hierarchies provides the freedom necessary to work across silos and generate real impact.

Yo creo que este libro es para todas las personas. Pero yo creo que puede ayudar especialmente a organizaciones, negocios, cualquier tipo de grupos. Pero puede ser funcional para cualquier persona, porque siempre estamos con personas. En cualquier tipo de grupo. Esto también expande tus habilidades como líder en un grupo. Ayuda a guiarte en un momento de cambio. The book accurately "types" people in a creative way, and subtly offers real tips for persuading large groups of people. Sadly, some people who read this book will not be swayed by it - not because the information is untrue, but because people are unaware of what they are doing and how they are feeling. Our Iceberg is Melting is a powerful illustration of Kotter's Eight Step Process of Successful Change outlined in his book Leading Change: Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on John Kotter's pioneer­ing research into the eight steps that can produce needed change in any sort of group. After finishing the story, you'll have a powerful framework for influencing your own team, no matter how big or small.

I give 4 star to this book, I liked it. It was a story about a penguin colony whose iceberg was melting. All the things that they had to go through to overcome this challenge, and all the steps that they went through to succeed. This book was written as fable, so it was entertaining and at the same time you were learning. This is a book that is easy to read. People are less likely to change themselves and others based on data and analysis than on compelling experiences.” John P. Kotter. la traducción de esta frase es “Es menos probable que las personas cambien a ellas mismas u otras personas basados en datos y análisis que en experiencias ”. Esta frase me llamó la atención, porque me di cuenta que nosotros no cambiamos por datos, nosotros cambiamos por una experiencia que nos impactó. Es más probable que cambiemos por lo que nos pasó, que por lo que vimos en una tabla de datos. En mi opinión personal, yo hago cambios muchas veces basándose en lo que he pasó. También aprendí que aprendemos mejor haciendo que solo sabiendo la teoría. Cuando solo sabes la teoría, a la hora de ponerlo en práctica es más difícil. Cuando aprendemos por experiencias aprendes más fácil y más probablemente Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard Business School’s John Kotter, it can help you and your colleagues thrive during tough times. Our Iceberg is Melting presents as a children's book: it is in large print with colourful illustrations - a five year old probably would enjoy it, if they had the patience to sit for the 45 minutes it takes to read. It is the story of an Emperor Penguin colony faced with a potentially devastating problem that is threatening their home. Fred, a low-ranking quirky penguin discovers that the iceberg on which the colony has lived for unknown generations is melting and is likely to fracture. The story charts how a small group lead the colony through the process of coming up with a solution and effecting their plan. Large-scale change can only occur when massive numbers of people rally around a common opportunity.

If there are a number of elementary school level books that discuss change, then is change actually possible when there is no shortage of newly published reflux in this genre? If a person in your organization does not 'get the message' the first time -- then how is another simpleton leadership book about Willy the Sloth or Timmy the Train going to convince them otherwise? Their delightfully told journey illuminates in an unforgettable way how to manage the necessary change that surrounds us all. Simple explanatory material following the fable enhances the lasting value of these lessons. I got out of there just in time. Another couple of weeks and I'd have been dressing up as Fred the visionary penguin, baking under the soul-destroying glare of the fluorescent lights of the Sequoia room in the South San Francisco Embassy Suites. And believe me, I have paid my dues as far as abusive corporate training sessions are concerned:

They need to stop killing trees for these kinds of books, even if they are used in 'board rooms and leadership committees'. 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. With offices in Seattle, Boston, and London and team members located across the US and Europe, Kotter's consulting and leadership development offerings identify and build leadership potential throughout an organization, in turn creating a movement capable of sustaining results in an ever-changing world. 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.” Empower others to act. Remove as many barriers as possible so that those who want to make the vision a reality can do so.That being said, we can proceed as if the tenants of the story are factually based and there is a population of Emperor Penguins who have always lived on the same iceberg and never migrate. Now that iceberg is "melting" (actually, the threat of breaking apart at fault lines would pose the more imminent threat) and the penguins need to agree first on what is happening and then on a course of action. I think this book is for everyone. But, I think that it will specially work for organizations, businesses, and other type of groups, because it is about changing in a group. But, it can be useful for anyone, because we are constantly with people in any type of group. This also expands your skills as a leader in a group. It helps you guide yourself through the change. Pull together the guiding team. 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. I'm not sure what to say about this book. We were given copies of this book by our management team at work in connection with a pending divisional restructure. I think the book was intended to help us adapt to change but I don't really see a parallel between the fabricated and factually flawed fable of penguins on a melting iceberg and what we are facing at work.