Our Ice Berg is Melting

Changing and Succeeding

Under Any Conditions
John Klotter

Prasad Rawale, Roll no 43

 What the book is all about??
• It’s a fable revolving around a colony of
Penguins set in Antarctica.
• Our focus of discussion is on the life of penguins
living in the frozen Antarctica on an ice berg
which had been there for many years.
• The ice berg is about to break apart into pieces
endangering the whole community.
• But the book narrates about a group of
Penguins, who in adverse conditions manage to
save of themselves, using the Eight Steps in
changing times.
Eight Steps Process of successful change

• 1. Create a Sense of Urgency.

 Help others see the need for change and the
importance of acting immediately.
• 2. Pull together the Guiding team.
 Make sure there is a powerful group guiding the
change-one with leadership
skills,credibilty,communications,ability and authority.
• 3. Develop the Change Vision and Strategy.
 Clarify how the future will be different from the past
and how you can make that future a reality.
• 4. Communicate for Understanding and Buy In.
 Make sure as many others possibly understand
and accept the vision and the strategy.
Contd..
• 5. Empower to Act.
Remove as many barriers as possible so that
those who want to make the vision a reality can
do so.
• 6. Produce Short term Wins
Create some visible, unambiguous successes as
soon as possible.
• 7. Don't Let up.
Press harder and faster after the first
success.
• 8. Create a new Culture.
 Lessons of Fable learned in our daily life….

• Act Smartly.
• Achieve more with less confusion and lower
stress.
• General sense of being in control through
understanding about what is going around.
• Understand that the Melting of ice berg comes in
dozen of forms: product ageing, decreasing
quality of services, a business strategy that
makes little sense and new one whose
implementation is sinking….
 Roll of thinking and feeling

 Thinking differently can help change

behavior and lead to better results.
1. collect data ,analyze it.
2. present the information logically to
change people thinking
3. Change thinking, in turn, can change
behavior
 Feeling differently can change behavior
and lead to even more better results.
1. Create surprising, compelling and if
possible visual experience.
2. The experiences change how people feel
about situation
3. A change in feelings can lead o
significant change in behavior.
 Morale

• Handle the challenge of change well and, you

can prosper greatly.
• Handle it poorly, and you put yourself and
others at Risks.
• Penguins language can facilitate communication
and make discussions of difficult topics within
organizations less confusing and threatening.