Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Good book.

Enjoyed the book and the pictures. Took a few hours and the leadership messages come through. Enjoyable ready and thought provoking if you are embarking on change of team / location or ways of working.

I went looking for this on my shelves recently and could not find it, so I purchased a new copy and reread it.It retains its freshness and charm and is a very good little book to get people thinking of how to move from a recognition that change is needed, to getting a strategy worked out for it and implemented.The childlike story format does not appeal to everyone, but Kotter hasa section at the back and has also written more grown up texts for those who do not like it.In all cases, change tends to be messier and more crablike in moving to completion than as set out here, but maybe a bit of optimism is no harm in getting people started.There is of course another problem which this book does not address in that it opens with someone in the community who has already identified the problem - many companies do not recognise that they have a problem until it is too late. 'Show me a previously successful company that has now gone to the wall, and I will show you it is a company that has been measuring the wrong things.'And this might be a lesson for our global environmental problem also - the context in which this tale is set...

Great little book to help newer leaders understand how to lead and know/understand the people working for them

Written like a fable, but it really gets to the root of the difficulties of changing institutional 'traditional' practice. The characters will remind you of people you work with for sure! How to bring them on board and willing to change is the crux of the book. Lovely to read and definitely not heavy duty, but very thought provoking just the same.

This book illustrates very cleverly the ways in which organisations should respond to necessary change. I read it a long time ago and wanted a new copy. I've lost count of the No-No penguins I've encountered; the anti- change types who try to put everyone off because they feel threatened, but the book shows how the team can succeed by working together and using their respective strengths effectively. A great book - if you're introducing a change, buy it for everyone in the company and ask them to read it before you start- that way your team will know why it's important to work with it and won't be so scared.

Excellent fable with some great messages but feels relatively niche overall

This is a book to turn the hearts of the reluctant, those who can't see the need to change. But don't get it for them, get it for your team.If you share this cute penguin fable with you team, you will enable conversations which can flow into the kinds of change management projects which will work both for the team and your whole organisation. Amongst other things, I learnt new ideas for getting on message despite differences in the team, and thus being better able to win over those you need to persuade to change. It isn't a book heavy in change management theory. It's not a 'how-to'. It simply describes a generalised eight step process to change - you must identify how each of the steps works out in your situation. That's why it's a book to share, discuss over a beer, and brainstorm your way out of stagnation to something more productive.