It’s a great book. It does an excellent job of communicating in a simple and humorous way the key challenges of leading change. We can easily identify with the characters. It allows a light-hearted discussion of very difficult issues.”

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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. When I was a child in France, I was first introduced to the French classic The Little Prince. I reread this marvelous book while in college and many times since as an adult. It is a book that keeps me growing and thinking. I can see Our Iceberg Is Melting becoming The Little Prince for the twenty-first century.” The characters in the story--Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo--are like people you probably recognize in your own organization, including yourself. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. The penguins offer an inspiring model as we all struggle to adapt to new circumstances. Develop the change vision and strategy: The inspiration from the seagull led to a solution which would change the way the penguins lived. They would become a nomad colony that moved to locations suitable for living if where they were currently living was not safe. This would be a big change to the penguins who had lived in one location for years and were used to their current way of life. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy. Clarify how the future will be different from the past, and how you can make that future a reality. Consider: What would be the equivalent of becoming nomads and being “free”? Is that better future attractive enough? Do we have a credible path to achieve that goal?”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.” Our Iceberg Is Melting is fantastic—offbeat, but right on. We should make everyone in Washington, D.C., read it.” Mr Hester said their models—confirmed in experiment—and the observations of oceanographers show that the sides of icebergs melt about twice as fast as their base. For icebergs that are moving in the ocean, melting at the front can be three or four times faster than what the old models predicted. Are you living on a melting iceberg or an iceberg that could melt? Kotter challenges the reader to reflect on icebergs in their organizations. For local government this could be in many forms, infrastructure, irrelevant services, fiscal stability, old traditions, etc. Beyond the eight steps, he also challenges the reader to look at the roles of thinking and feeling. Who are the skeptics? Who are the Fred’s? Who am I? All of which are important to consider when pulling together your guiding team.

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Step Seven – Don’t Let Up. After the first success the penguins pressed on by sending a second wave of scouts to explore promising possibilities discovered by the first scouts. They were relentless, initiating change until they found a suitable iceberg that fit their nomadic vision.The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world.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’ John Kotter, it can help you and your colleagues thrive during tough times. On an iceberg near the coast of A

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Communicate for understanding and buy-In: Though the team had now found a potential solution they needed to get the buy-in of the penguins. There were penguins who were very skeptical and thought either the whole thing about the melting iceberg was nonsense or it was too dangerous for the penguins to move. The team found interesting ways to communicate the vision to arouse the interest of the penguins and off course there were different reactions to the communication. But the team relented, they made posters and put them all around to communicate the vision and emphasize the advantages of a new way of life. This iceberg is not who we are. It is only where we now live. We are smarter, stronger, and more capable than the seagulls. So why can’t we do what they have done, and better? We are not chained to this piece of ice. We can leave it behind us. Let it melt to the size of a fish. Let it break into one thousand pieces. We will find other places to live that are safer . . . and better! When necessary, we will move again. We will never have to put our families at risk from the sort of terrible danger we face today. We will prevail!” The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world. Glaciers around the world can range from ice that is several hundred to several thousand years old and provide a scientific record of how climate has changed over time. Through their study, we gain valuable information about the extent to which the planet is rapidly warming. They provide scientists a record of how climate has changed over time. We need to remind the birds of what they have heard, and remind them all the time. The meeting this morning was brief. Some of the colony were not here. The message is radical. We need much more communication—every day, everywhere.”

Step Three – Develop the Change Vision and Strategy. After searching for ideas and answers, the penguins decided to try something new, “walk around and keep your eyes and minds open.” Along came a seagull that challenged their thinking and intrigued them with his nomadic lifestyle. The team clarified the future vision and established a strategy to make it reality; they too would become a nomadic colony. 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. Produce Short-Term Wins: When other penguins got involved they started achieving short term goals which were necessary on the way to the end result. This encouraged more penguins to buy-in to the idea. To the team these felt like short-term wins, and it kept the penguins motivated to keep working on towards the solution.