Our Iceberg is Melting

Book Critique on “Our Iceberg is Melting” 

This story is all about life. It can be happen in the individual or in the community organization. Nothing is constant, everything is in each challenges. But we must accept it and use is as it is way of developing and improving our life. This book talks all about by using penguins' community as characters.I read but I still want to read it again since this book always encourage me think about my own community (Lahe Town).

I also remember the books "One Minute Manager" by Ken Blanchard and "Who Moved My Cheese" by Spencer Johnson, which is very similar with the way this book is written. A story telling style is used to illustrate John Kotter's eight principles of change outlined in another book, Leading Change by the same author. The characters in this book are, surprisingly penguins and the premise is a threat to the lifestyle of the penguins because their current habitat, the iceberg where they live is melting. The book goes through how the penguins discovered the problem which highlights a need for change and how they then go through the change process using Kotter's eight principles for change.

There are many things to pick up from the writing of the book. I would here end up by summarizing the main steps of penguins work. 

# Created a sense of urgency in the colony to deal with a difficult problem.

# Put a carefully selected group in charge of guiding the change.

# Found the sensible vision of a better future.

# Communicated that vision so others would understand and accept it.

# Removed as many obstacles to action as was practical.

# Created some sort of success quickly.

# Never let up until the new way of life was firmly established.

# Ensured that the changes would not be overcome by stubborn, hard-to-die traditions.

Thank you!