Is our Iceberg melting??

Today Rohit wanted to see some thriller movie. I am not comfortable watching movies in that genre, and so I skipped. While thinking what to do during those 3 hours, I saw “Our Iceberg is melting” book which Rohit bought for me as Mother’s day gift (he also bought a dress and “Emotional Intelligence” book, how lucky I am!!)

“Our Iceberg is melting” is an awesome book on change management is what I heard in one of the training program, in fact Navjot also suggested this book. Thank you Navjot, good suggestion, I really loved this book. J

I found the book is not only good in Change management; one can find the following areas also covered in a good deal: Art of Influencing, Convincing, and Team work, importance of Storytelling, Impact of Social pressure and above a very subtle sense of Humor is there throughout the book, which helps in keeping a constant smile in the readers’ face.

The author has chosen extremely powerful way of teaching a management lesson through a very simple story, which can be easily understood by anybody. In fact Rohit only read this book first, I am sure he wouldn’t have understood the depth of the lesson, but he has surely understood the purpose of the book.

The author talks about 8 step process of successful change:

1.       Create a sense of urgency

2.       Pull together the guiding team

3.       Develop the change vision and strategy

4.       Communicate for understanding and buy in

5.       Empower others to act

6.       Produce short-term wins

7.       Don’t Let-up

8.       Create a New Culture

Though there are lot of key learning from this book, for me the key message is: not to become complacent, which we all tend to do once we reach certain level in our life or organization. I too felt that I have reached the level what I can manage in my career, but two months back I had an external force to shake me up and made me realize that I can run further. I have just started my next race.  

Coming back to the topic, I feel our iceberg is always melting, so continuous improvement and change will always keep us alive.