Summary: Our Iceberg is Melting 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. Welcome Note by John Kotter: People do not often understand the need for change. Businesses
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Our iceberg is melting by John Kotter “Once upon a time a colony of penguins was living in the frozen Antarctic on an iceberg near what we call today Cape Washington.” The following summary will explain the key moments of the fable and how they relate to our lives. First‚ let’s introduce some of the more important penguins – the Leadership Council members. Louis‚ the head of the Leadership Council‚ could perhaps be considered the CEO of the penguin colony. Alice is a smart‚ aggressive member
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Introduction Author of the book: John Kotter is the leadership and change guru at Harvard business school. He is the author of eleven books that have been honored or have become business best sellers. Professor Kotter gives speeches and seminars at Harvard business school and around the world. Subject of the book: The book is all about how to bring and lead a successful change under any conditions in an organization. The Author has nicely brought out his eight step process of successful change
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9/13/11 Our Iceberg is Melting By John Kotter ‘Our Iceberg Is Melting’ is a story about a penguin colony having to adapt 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. This charming story illustrates key truths about how to deal with the issue of change: handle to challenge well and you can prosper greatly: handle it poorly‚ and you put yourself at risk. The characters in this
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Our Iceberg is Melting is a story of penguins who are very comfortable with their present existence until a curious penguin named Fred discovered one day as result of curiosity that their iceberg was melting. The iceberg was the foundation of the penguins’ existence and without it they would perish. Fred had the courage to inform Alice who is a member of the Leadership Council about condition of the iceberg. Alice was a penguin who got things done and would listen to Fred. Fred had the opportunity
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BUS ADM 733 – Organization Development Book Review: Our Iceberg is Melting Our Iceberg Is Melting is a rather unique and most certainly entertaining fable by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber. While the authors’ key intention was to portray an array of turbulent changes in the context of Eight-Step Change Model‚ the book also applies a multitude of other business theories to the concept of organizational change. As it has been mentioned in the paragraph above‚ the main constituent of change
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Our Iceberg Is Melting is written by John Kotter‚ the leadership and change guru at Harvard Business School and Holger Rathgeber‚ the modern global manager from Frankfurt‚ Germany. The main topic and the author’s purpose in writing the book are to make successful change through the eight step process. The type of the book is management book that can use by people in every level such as manager in one organization‚ high school student‚ executives‚ retirees and others in order to better achieve what
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Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions John Kotter and has produced a great book that contains a wealth of wisdom and insight. While it looks and reads like a simple book‚ it is anything but simple. The message which Kotter is able to make clear goes much deeper than the surface story of a colony of penguins in search of answers pertaining to their survival on an iceberg. He easily describes a scenario through a penguin colony that any person can relate to and think
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John Kotter Process Of Leading Change Kevin R. Robinson robinke@hotmail.com Keller Graduate School of Management HR587 Managing Organizational Change January‚ 2009 [pic] [pic] [pic] Executive Summary This research paper will focus on John Kotter’s eight stage process for leading change. Kotter introduced this eight-stage model as a way of looking at the actual stages of the change process itself. This enables us to map our organizational system with the process
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JOHN KOTTER 8 STEPS The above diagram is the 8steps of John Kotter towards change.This model is divided into three phase.The first phase is to create the climate for change.The first step is to create urgency‚ not all of the employees are open to change‚for change to happen the company must develop a sense of urgency around the need for change.An honest and convincing dialouge about what is happening in the marketplace and with the competition may convince people and make them start talking
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