Our iceberg is melting : changing and succeeding under any conditions - KOTTER (New York : St. Martin's Press, 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 problems 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 regconize-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.
Keywords: Organizational change; Organizational effectiveness; Penguins fiction