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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... More

© 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 Te Less