Our Iceberg is Melting ─ Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

A new edition of the classic business parable that has sold more than a million copies since 2006.

For the past decade, millions of managers have found inspiration and guidance from John Kotter's highly acclaimed business fable,Our Iceberg is Melting. Based on his award-winning research at Harvard Business School, it has helped thousands of organizations cope with rapid and unwelcome change.

The fable is about a penguin colony in Antarctica, where a group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem that threatens their home... and pretty much no one listens to him.

The penguin characters -- Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo -- will remind readers of people they know at work, and maybe even themselves. The problem of resistance to change in the face of major obstacles may seem depressingly familiar. But the penguins ultimately handle their very real challenges better than most humans.

Our Iceberg is Melting can be enjoyed as a story while also providing invaluable guidance for a world that keeps moving fast and faster.

Dr. John P. Kotter, often called the world's authority on change leadership, is the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. Many of his eighteen previous books, includingLeading Change and Accelerate, have been national and international bestsellers. He and his consulting firm, Kotter International, have helped hundreds of complex organizations transform themselves. Over the last 35 years, Dr. Kotter's articles in the Harvard Business Review have sold more reprints than those of any other author.Holger Rathgeber works for one of the leading medical technology companies, Bectom Dickinson. He is also collaborating with Dr. Kotter on his next business fable.