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What's the most severe thing you can hear when you have a good idea at the job? "That's not how we do it here!" Within their iconic best seller Our Iceberg Is Melting, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the procedure of leading people through major changes. Now, 10 years later, they're back again with another must-listen storyline that will help any team or company manage their biggest challenges and turn them into exciting opportunities. Once upon a time, a clan of meerkats resided in the Kalahari, an area in Southern Africa. After years of steady development, a drought has sharply reduced the clan's resources, and fatal vulture episodes 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 shiny and ambitious meerkat, hits the street in search of new ideas to help her stressed clan. She discovers a much smaller group that operates very differently, with much more teamwork and agility. These meerkats are suffering from innovative solutions to find food and evade the vultures. But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it appears at first. Can Nadia figure out how to incorporate the best of both worlds - a big, disciplined, well-managed clan and a little, informal, inspiring clan - before it's too past due? This e book distills Kotter's years of experience and award-winning research to show you why organizations rise and fall and how they can rise again when confronted with adversity.
