Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

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Removing barriers such as inefficient processes and hierarchies provides the freedom necessary to work across silos and generate real impact. Create a sense of urgency. Help others see the need for change and the importance of acting immediately. Step Four – Communicate for Understanding and Buy In. Louis, intriguing to the emotion of the penguins, communicated the vision and obtained buy-in during a colony meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting 30% could see the new way of life, 30% were digesting the information, 20% were very confused, 10% were skeptical but not hostile, and 10% thought the idea was completely absurd. After the meeting, the vision was communicated around the iceberg on posters.

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In diesem Buch wird auf eine wundervolle Weise gezeigt, wie wir Veränderungen begegnen und wie wir das Beste daraus machen. Mit einer Kolonie von Pinguinen und dem Problem eines schmelzendes Eisberges wird aufgezeigt, welche Möglichkeiten wir haben, wenn wir sie denn ergreifen - und auch, wenn wir uns dagegen wehren. Press harder after the first successes. Your increasing credibility can improve systems, structures and policies. Be relentless with initiating change after change until the vision is a reality. 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. Dr. Vasil, who is Mr Hester's Ph.D. supervisor, said: "Before Eric started his Ph.D. the computational tools to model these kinds of systems didn't really exist.A volunteer army needs a coalition of effective people – born of its own ranks – to guide it, coordinate it, and communicate its activities.

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any

About 70 percent of the world's freshwater is in the polar ice sheets and we know climate change is causing these ice sheets to shrink," said Mr Hester, a doctoral student in the School of Mathematics & Statistics. In considering the effect of iceberg melt upon ocean structure, it is found that the total Antarctic melt is equivalent to the addition of 0.1 metre (0.3 foot) of fresh water per year at the surface. This is like adding 0.1 metre of extra annual rainfall. The dilution that occurs, if averaged over a mixed layer 100–200 metres (330–660 feet) deep, amounts to a decrease of 0.015–0.03 part per thousand (ppt) of salt. Melting icebergs thus make a small but measurable contribution to maintaining the Southern Ocean pycnocline (the density boundary separating low-salinity surface water from higher-salinity deeper water) and to keeping surface salinity in the Southern Ocean to its observed low value of 34 ppt or below. If your iceberg is sinking, Mr. Organizational Man, then consider taking this advice from a band called Tool: Learn to Swim. 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. Foreword by Spenser Johnson: One the surface, the story of this book appears to be a fable that is relatively easy to grasp, but it does subtly impart an invaluable lesson on change. The book covers John Kotter’s Eight Steps to bring about successful organizational change and can be equally useful for a high-school student as it is for a CEO of a multi-national organization.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. The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world.

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Hold on to the new ways of behaving, and make sure they succeed, until they become strong enough to replace old traditions. 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. 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. The research shows that iceberg shape is important. Given that the sides melt faster, wide icebergs melt more slowly but smaller, narrower icebergs melt faster.

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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. Can you guess which expert on dairy products writes the foreword to the parable of the penguins? Hmmm. Can you?) 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?

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If you've read books like One Minute Manager by Ken Blanchard and Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson, then you will be familiar with the way this book is written. A story telling style is used to illustrate John Kotter's eight principles of change outlined in another book, Leading Change by the same author. The characters in this book are, surprisingly penguins and the premise is a threat to the lifestyle of the penguins because their current habitat, the iceberg where they live is melting. The book goes through how the penguins discovered the problem which highlights a need for change and how they then go through the change process using Kotter's eight principles for change. 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. Louis began the colony’s assembly by saying, “Fellow penguins, as we meet this challenge—and we definitely will—it is more important than ever to remember who we really are.” The crowd looked blankly at him. “Tell me, are we penguins who deeply respect one another?” There was silence until someone said, “Of course.” Then others said, “Yes.” NoNo was in the middle of the audience trying to figure out what scheme was afoot. It was not obvious yet, which he did not like. Louis continued. “And do we strongly value discipline?” “Yes,” said a dozen or so of the elderly birds. “And do we have a strong sense of responsibility, too?” It was hard to argue with that. It had been true for generations. “Yes,” many now agreed. “Above all, do we stand for brotherhood and the love of our young?” A loud “Yes!” followed. The Head Penguin paused. “And tell me . . . are these qualities that say who we are and what we care about linked to a large piece of ice?” When some not particularly bright birds, caught up in the yes-yes cadence, were again about to say yes, Alice shouted, “NO!”

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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.