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Book review of “Our Iceberg Is Melting – Changing
and succeeding under any conditions” – by John
Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
I normally avoid reading management books which are prescriptive.
I like the ones which...
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© 2011 Apptivo Inc.
All rights reserved.
Book review of “Our Iceberg Is Melting – Changing
and succeeding under any conditions” – by John
Kotter and Holger Rathgeber
I normally avoid reading management books which are prescriptive.
I like the ones which are
classics or those which are based on events and incidents or are about people.
Because most of
the time, I feel that prescriptive books come out with solutions which use a lot of jargon and
which look good on paper, but which were not implementable in the complex real-world.
Sometimes some of these books describe a management fad which will change when the fashion
changes next year.
The management books I have liked are memoirs or experiences of people –
like ‘Liar’s Poker’ by Michael Lewis (insightful description of investment banking from the
inside), ‘The Nudist on the late shift’ by Po Bronson (wonderful book about the dot com
revolution).
Or are about major events – like ‘When genius failed – the rise and fall of Long
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