A new business parable from John Kotter - the leading authority on leadership and change, and bestselling author of Our Iceberg is Melting That's Not How We Do It Here is the story of a clan of meerkats who live in the Kalahari. Well organised and efficient, the colony enjoys many years of successful growth, until it suddenly comes under threat from a new form of predator and is forced to rethink its organizational structure. 
John Kotter uses this charming parable to explore why organizations often struggle no matter their past success, and why they fall. 
Kotter shows that by embracing reliability, efficiency, speed and agility, and building passion, discipline and personal growth, organizations can once again prosper, fulfil their mission, create great jobs and services and generate wealth.

That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story About How Organizations Rise, Fall – and Can Rise Again

Business & Money

KOTTER, John

Rathgeber, Holger

Management & Leadership

Portfolio/Penguin

Organization

Richard D.Irwin

The revised and updated tenth anniversary edition of the classic, beloved business fable that has changed millions of lives in organizations around the world. Our Iceberg Is Melting is a simple story about doing well under the stress and uncertainty of rapid change. Based on the award-winning work of Harvard Business School’s John Kotter, it can help you and your colleagues thrive during tough times. On an iceberg near the coast of Antarctica, group of beautiful emperor penguins live as they have for many years. Then one curious bird discovers a potentially devastating problem threatening their home—and almost no one listens to him. The characters in the story—Fred, Alice, Louis, Buddy, the Professor, and NoNo—are like people you probably recognize in your own organization, including yourself. Their tale is one of resistance to change and heroic action, seemingly intractable obstacles and clever tactics for dealing with those obstacles. The penguins offer an inspiring model as we all struggle to adapt to new circumstances. Our Iceberg Is Melting is based on John Kotter's pioneering research into the eight steps that can produce needed change in any sort of group. After finishing the story, you'll have a powerful framework for influencing your own team, no matter how big or small. This tenth anniversary edition preserves the text of the timeless story, together with new illustrations, a revised afterword, and a Q&amp;A with the authors about the responses they've gotten over the past decade. Prepare to be both enlightened and delighted, whether you're already a fan of this classic fable or are discovering it for the first time.

Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions

Business Culture

Penguin/Random House

What’s the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work? “That’s not how we do it here!” In their iconic bestseller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of leading people through major changes. Now, ten years later, they’re back with another must-read story that will help any team or organization cope with their biggest challenges and turn them into exciting opportunities. Once upon a time a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan’s resources, and deadly vulture attacks have increased. As things keep getting worse, the harmony of the clan is shattered. The executive team quarrels about possible solutions, and suggestions from frontline workers face a soul-crushing response: “That’s not how we do it here!” So Nadia, a bright and adventurous meerkat, hits the road in search of new ideas to help her troubled clan. She discovers a much smaller group that operates very differently, with much more teamwork and agility. These meerkats have developed innovative solutions to find food and evade the vultures. But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it seems at first. Can Nadia figure out how to combine the best of both worlds—a large, disciplined, well-managed clan and a small, informal, inspiring clan—before it’s too late? This book distills Kotter’s decades of experience and award-winning research to reveal why organizations rise and fall, and how they can rise again in the face of adversity.

That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again

Portfolio

Penguin Audio

John Kotter, the world's foremost expert on business leadership, distills twenty-five years of experience into Leading Change. A must-have for any organization, this visionary and very personal audiobook is at once inspiring, clear-headed, and filled with important implications for the future.
The pressures on organizations to change will only increase over the next decades. Yet the methods managers have used to strengthen their companies―total quality management, reengineering, right sizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds―routinely fall short. In Leading Change, Kotter identifies an eight-step process that every company must go through to achieve its goal, and shows where and how people―good people―often derail. Emphasizing again and again the critical need for leadership to make change happen, Leading Change provides unprecedented access to our generation's business master and a positive role model for leaders to emulate.

Leading Change: An Action Plan from The World's Foremost Expert on Business Leadership

MacMillan Audio

John Kotter's international bestseller Leading Change struck a powerful chord with legions of managers everywhere. It acknowledged the cynicism, pain, and fear they faced in implementing large-scale change--but also armed them with an eight-step plan of action for leaping boldly forward in a turbulent world. Now, Kotter and coauthor Dan S. Cohen delve deeper into the subject of change to get to the heart of how change actually happens. Through compelling, real-life stories from people in the trenches, in all kinds of organizations, the authors tackle the fundamental problem that underlies every major transformation: How do you go beyond simply getting your message across to truly changing people's behavior? Based on interviews within over 100 organizations in the midst of large-scale change, The Heart of Change delivers the simple yet provocative answer to this question, forever altering the way organizations and individuals approach change. While most companies believe change happens by making people think differently, Kotter and Cohen say the key lies in making them feel differently. They introduce a new dynamic--"see-feel-change"--that fuels action by showing people potent reasons for change that spark their emotions. For individuals in every walk of life and companies in every stage of change, this audiobook captures the heart--and the how--of successful change.

The Heart of Change

Cohen, Dan

Skills

Build the workforce of the future.
In our volatile and complex era--which boasts a competitive market for top talent--HR's traditional model will fail. Your company needs to adopt the latest skills to successfully manage performance and evaluate potential. HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection features innovative ideas on how to foster a vibrant, high-performing company culture, spearhead constructive change, and reap the benefits of a diverse workforce. Included in this five-book set are HBR's 10 Must Reads on Reinventing HR, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Change Management, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Building a Great Culture, HBR's 10 Must Reads on Diversity, and HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing People. The collection includes fifty articles selected by HBR's editors from renowned thought leaders including Marcus Buckingham, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, and Sylvia Ann Hewlett, plus the indispensable article "People Before Strategy" by Ram Charan, Dominic Barton, and Dennis Carey. With HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection, break free from the traditional HR mindset and learn how to build the workforce of the future.
HBR's 10 Must Reads paperback series is the definitive collection of books for new and experienced leaders alike. Leaders looking for the inspiration that big ideas provide, both to accelerate their own growth and that of their companies, should look no further. HBR's 10 Must Reads series focuses on the core topics that every ambitious manager needs to know: leadership, strategy, change, managing people, and managing yourself. Harvard Business Review has sorted through hundreds of articles and selected only the most essential reading on each topic. Each title includes timeless advice that will be relevant regardless of an ever‐changing business environment.

HBR's 10 Must Reads for HR Leaders Collection (5 Books)

BUCKINGHAM, Marcus

Review, Harvard Business

MAUBORGNE, RENÉE

KIM, W.CHAN

Harvard Business Review Press

ALERTE SUR LA BANQUISE

Pearson

Millions of people around the world have read and embraced John Kotters insights into change management and change leadership. The now legendary process in John Kotters eight steps of managing change with positive results has become the foundation for leaders and organizations around the world.In todays environment where change has become no longer the exception but the rule in all businesses this bestselling book is intended to be both a visionary work and a practical resource for leaders and managers responsible for leading change initiatives in their company. Spent with the worlds leading expert on business leadership youre sure to come away armed with all the tools you need to get everyone in your business on board. to change.

Conduire le changement: Feuille de route en 8 étapes (French Edition)

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