Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

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Don't let up. Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with initiating change after change until the vision is a reality. 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. These books take complex and sometimes fear-inducing subjects (like change) and present them in friendly ways to help readers understand how they can deal with them in their business and personal lives. Don't let up: The colony finally moved to a new iceberg but they didn't stay there. They found a better one and moved again. They were not giving up but kept looking for better living situations for the colony. Some of this ice loss is direct from the ice sheets, but about half of the overall ice loss from Greenland and Antarctica happens when icebergs melt in the ocean, so understanding this process is important. 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.

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any

The power of the fable lies in its vivid details and analogy, which helps us to reflect on our work, workplace and the people around us. Consider the melting icebergs that you could be on (e.g. outdated curriculum or product lines, deteriorating services), the potential change champions and nay-sayers in your organization, and what role you can play. The book is especially powerful when it is read as a team, as it provides a tool to align your thinking and approach toward change. We are confident this modelling captures enough of the complexity so that we now have a much better way to explain how icebergs melt," Mr Hester said. Fred was determined to prove his case. The colony was governed by a Leadership Council (sound familiar?). Fred elected to convince Alice, one of the Council members, by taking her to the melting point. After proving his point to Alice, he was invited to present at a Leadership Council meeting. Fred was met with continued skepticism but did his homework and knew the best delivery method for obtaining buy in from the colony leadership. Through an iceberg model and a glass bottle, Fred was successful in convincing the Council of the urgency of the situation. Sea ice forms and melts strictly in the ocean whereas glaciers are formed on land. Icebergs are chunks of glacial ice that break off glaciers and fall into the ocean.

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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.

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In der heutigen Gesellschaft wird das Thema Veränderungen gross geschrieben - auch an mir geht es nicht einfach so vorbei. If your iceberg is sinking, Mr. Organizational Man, then consider taking this advice from a band called Tool: Learn to Swim. Ich fand den Schreibstil unheimlich toll und auch, wie der Autor dieses doch komplexe Thema auf diese wundervolle Art an den Leser bringt. Man lernt unheimlich viel davon, ohne es vielleicht im ersten Moment zu begreifen. Press harder and faster after the first successes. Be relentless with irritating change after change until the vision is a reality Can you guess which expert on dairy products writes the foreword to the parable of the penguins? Hmmm. Can you?)

They need to stop killing trees for these kinds of books, even if they are used in 'board rooms and leadership committees'. 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. 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. Today, the Arctic is warming twice as fast as anywhere on earth, and the sea ice there is declining by more than 10% every 10 years. As this ice melts, darker patches of ocean start to emerge, eliminating the effect that previously cooled the poles, creating warmer air temperatures and in turn disrupting normal patterns of ocean circulation. Research shows the polar vortex is appearing outside of the Arctic more frequently because of changes to the jet stream, caused by a combination of warming air and ocean temperatures in the Arctic and the tropics.

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Large-scale change can only occur when massive numbers of people rally around a common opportunity.In icebergs moving in oceans, the melting on the base can be up to 30 percent faster than in old models." Step Two – Pull Together the Guiding Team. Louis, the Head Penguin, pulled a team together to guide the colony through the challenges. The team was powerful and exhibited qualities of leadership, credibility, communications, authority, analytical skills, and a sense of urgency. After the composition of the team was determined they spent time (only two days) building a close-knit team. 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: If you want a great book that you can use to teach your co-workers or family about leading during a time of ever changing conditions, read this book, Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions . It is so easy to understand! Our Iceberg is Melting Review The author of the book, John Kotter, found that 90% of organizations were either ignoring relevant changes or trying to adjust in ways that were not meeting their aspirations. This was leading to too much time and money being wasted. So he decided to turn a story about a group of penguins and a melting iceberg to illustrate the process and tools of a successful change. Today, about 10% of land area on Earth is covered with glacial ice. Almost 90% is in Antarctica, while the remaining 10% is in the Greenland ice cap.