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In Our Iceberg is Melting, a simple fable about penguins encapsulates vital truths about embracing change and illustrates how adaptability can yield prosperity, while resistance can lead to peril, in an ever-changing world.What if everything you knew was about to change? For generations, a penguin colony thrived on their iceberg - until one brave, curious mind uncovers a looming catastrophe. His desperate pleas for action are met with the all-too-human resistance to anything new.Our Iceberg Is Melting provides a powerful guide for navigating personal and professional transformation. Through relatable characters, this fable illuminates human nature, the challenge of resistance, and the incredible power of collective action. It is a story that is occurring in different forms around us today – but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us.Drawing on John Kotter's renowned insights, this concise book equips you with the wisdom to drive faster, smarter change in your work, family and community – essential in today's relentless world.This special tenth anniversary edition features new and improved illustrations and a foreword by Spencer Johnson, author of Who Moved My Cheese?

A new business parable from John Kotter - the leading authority on leadership and change, and bestselling author of Our Iceberg is MeltingThat's Not How We Do It Here is the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth, until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore why organizations often struggle no matter their past success, and why they fall. Kotter shows that by embracing reliability, efficiency, speed and agility, and building passion, discipline and personal growth, organizations can once again prosper, fulfil their mission, create great jobs and services and generate wealth.

In Our Iceberg is Melting, a simple fable about penguins illustrates how to conquer change, with profound lessons for working and living in an ever-changing world.Featuring a foreword by Spencer Johnson, bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese?Charming and thought-provoking, this bestselling story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk.The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many years. Then one curious penguin discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home – and pretty much no one listens to him.The characters in this fable are like people we recognize, even ourselves. Their story is one of resistance to change and heroic action, confusion and insight, seemingly intractable obstacles and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It is a story that is occuring in different forms around us today – but the penguins handle change a great deal better than most of us.Based on John Kotter's pioneering work on how to make smart change happen faster and better, the lessons you can learn from this short and easy-to-read book will serve you well in your job, in your family life and in your community. And these lessons are becoming ever more important as the world around us changes faster and faster.This edition celebrates twenty years since the publication of this classic business fable with a new cover.