Iceberg Is Melting

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 they want and what their organization need. The authors use the short tale or simple fables that reader easy to read and reflect on the story. They illustrate a penguin colony in Antarctica that begin with one curious bird discover a habitat is threatened by melting iceberg. The characters in the story are Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and the cleverest tactics for sealing with those obstacles which is the melting iceberg and searching for potential new homes. The authors provide the overviews the eight step process of successful change included the four major step which are set the stage, decide what to do, make it happen and make it stick. Besides that, the authors also provide the role of thinking and feeling. Thinking differently can help change behaviour and lead to better results and feeling differently can change behaviour more and lead to even better result.
The book is very clear explained about the story of penguin that can be relate with one organization directly for example in a form of product line, services that are decreasing in quality and a business strategy that make increasingly little sense. The authors are achieving the goal with the simple story that easy to understand and come out with eight process of successful change. The important points of the first stage are create a sense of urgency that help others see the need for change and