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  • Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions
  • Written by: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
  • Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
  • Length: 2 hrs and 9 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (20 ratings)

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Our Iceberg Is Melting

Written by: John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
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Publisher's Summary

A new edition of the classic business parable that has sold more than a million copies since 2006.

Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple fable about doing well in an ever-changing world. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard's John Kotter, it is a story that has been used to help thousands of people and organizations.

The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica. A group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home - and pretty much no one listens to him.

The characters in the story, Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo, are like people we recognize - even ourselves. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles, and the most clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. It's a story that is occurring in different forms all around us today - but the penguins handle the very real challenges a great deal better than most of us.

Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on pioneering work that shows how eight steps produce needed change in any sort of group. It's a story that can be enjoyed by anyone while at the same time providing invaluable guidance for a world that just keeps moving faster and faster.

©2016 John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber (P)2016 Penguin Audio

What the critics say

"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." (from the foreword by Spencer Johnson, MD, author of Who Moved My Cheese?)

"...companies should buy a copy for everyone from the CEO to the stock clerk" (Michelle Archer, USA Today)

"I ordered and distributed sixty copies, evaluated its effect on our change effort, and then ordered five hundred more.... This is a gem." (Heidi King, Department of Defense)  

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Help, I'm Melting

I am not a reader by design, in fact I could probably count on my fingers the books I have read in my lifetime. This book and tge audible app, was a total win for me. Your thinking change this book will give you the Foundation you need to execute change and win your entire team, staff and founding fathers for the betterment of a successful organization.

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A must-read (or listen)

The authors made an excellent job by slicing and dicing a common but complex dilemma and translating it into a a nice and simple fable. It's impossible not to picture our colleagues in each of the characters but the question remains, who are we?

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