It has been postulated that, during the first stage of the retreat of the Laurentide Ice Sheet of North America, a large ice-dammed glacial lake ( Lake Agassiz) formed in Canada over much of present-day Manitoba. In considering the effect of iceberg melt upon ocean structure, it is found that the total Antarctic melt is equivalent to the addition of 0. Throughout the story, Kotter packed numerous interesting details, analogies and insights about change-management challenges at work e. For local government this could be in many forms, infrastructure, irrelevant services, fiscal stability, old traditions, etc.

How icebergs really melt—and what this could mean for climate

For icebergs that are moving in the ocean, melting at the front can be three or four times faster than what the old models predicted. As sea ice and glaciers melt and oceans warm, ocean currents will continue to disrupt weather patterns worldwide. The duo composed of a Harvard professor John Kotter and a global manager Holger Rathgeber probably had a frenzy of penguin movies (Surfs Up, Happy Feet, March of the Penguins, Attack of the Penguins, Zombie Penguins, etc) with their kids so they thought of using penguins instead of humans and seagull instead of mice.g. outdated curriculum or product lines, deteriorating services), the potential change champions and nay-sayers in your organization, and what role you can play. It has already sold 224,000 copies according to the Times and may be on pace to surpass the sales of Leading Change, the original on which Iceberg is based.

Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any

It shows the Eight Steps to successfully implement change, and asks you to think about these in relation to your situation. Rapid glacial melt in Antarctica and Greenland also influences ocean currents, as massive amounts of very cold glacial-melt water entering warmer ocean waters is slowing ocean currents. The leadership characteristics that are important to successful change in an organization are those that are espoused in the transformational theory of management. The Leadership Council empowered over thirty birds to scout out future icebergs and a plan for moving the colony.Their main findings are that the central issue concerns not structure or systems but behavior and how to alter it (Farris, 2008). In this summary, we will outline the gist of the story, alongside Kotter’s 8 Steps to Successful Change in 3 Phases. In Antarctica the annual loss amounts to only one ten-thousandth of its mass, so the ice sheet is an enormous passive reservoir.