HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PROFESSOR OFFERS FABLE ABOUT MANAGING CHANGE
Noted Expert John Kotter Outlines Eight-Step Process from Penguins' Perspective
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BOSTON - Change affects all of us – these days more rapidly than ever before. It’s supposed to be our friend. But many people regard it with trepidation, and when it is clearly called for in an organization, they don’t know how to manage it effectively.
To the rescue comes a new book that helps solve that problem. In Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding under Any Conditions (St. Martin’s Press), John Kotter, an award-winning author and Harvard Business School professor for many years, teams up with top technology executive Holger Rathgeber to teach readers how to do change right. Our Iceberg Is Melting puts the eight-step process outlined in Kotter’s international bestseller, Leading Change, in the context of a modern day fable about a penguin colony at the far end of the earth to convey life-altering lessons and provide a method for bringing about major organizational transformations.
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| Our Iceberg is Melting |
The book asks readers to consider whether their own iceberg is melting and to think about what they can do about it. The insights and lessons presented in the book include:
- A blueprint for implementing and actually enjoying the process of change;
- A method for making organizational change within a business or one’s own life happen faster, cheaper, and with less grief;
- The easiest ways to sort through personal and professional confusion and frustration; and
- A process to effectively analyze personal experiences and translate them into successes at home and at work.
About the Authors
John Kotter is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership (Retired) at Harvard Business School. He continues to teach in Executive Education programs at the School, author books and articles on leadership and change, and speak at top management meetings around the world. He is the author of 16 books, a collection that has given him more honors and awards than any other writer on the topics of leadership and change. In addition to Our Iceberg is Melting, published in September 2006, his recent books include The Heart of Change, a 2002 best book list winner from both Amazon.com and Executive Book Summaries; Matsushita Leadership, 1998’s first place winner in the Financial Times, Booz Allen Global Business Book Competition for biography/autobiography; and Leading Change, named the number one management book of the year in 1996 by Management General. Professor Kotter’s other honors include an Exxon Award for Innovation in Graduate Business School Curriculum Design, and a Johnson, Smith & Knisely Award for New Perspectives in Business Leadership. In 2004, a video he produced won a Telly Award for two educational films on leading change concepts that he produced. In 2001, a BusinessWeek survey rated Professor Kotter the top ‘leadership guru’ in America. For more information, visit www.johnkotter.com.
Holger Rathgeber works with Becton Dickinson, one of the leading medical technology companies, in human resource management. Rathgeber spent his early professional career in Asia, where he gained experience facilitating the successful divestment of a company and led company operations to a new go-to-market model. Raised in Frankfurt, Germany, he currently resides in White Plains, NY.
About Harvard Business School
Founded in 1908 as part of Harvard University, Harvard Business School (www.hbs.edu) is located in Boston and offers full-time programs leading to the MBA and doctoral degrees, as well as more than 40 Executive Education programs. With a faculty of more than 200 distinguished scholars, the School is dedicated to educating leaders who make a difference in the world. Its core focus is to shape the practice of business, build enduring knowledge, and effectively communicate important ideas. Harvard Business School is the world’s largest producer of business cases, a method of teaching pioneered by the School in the 1920s.