That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again

That's Not How We Do It Here!: A Story about How Organizations Rise and Fall--and Can Rise Again

<p><b> What’s the worst thing you can hear when you have a good idea at work?<br />“That’s not how we do it here!”</b><br /> <br />In their iconic bestseller <i>Our Iceberg Is Melting</i>, John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber used a simple fable about penguins to explain the process of lead­ing people through major changes. Now, ten years later, they’re back with another must-read story that will help any team or organization cope with their biggest challenges and turn them into exciting opportunities.<br /> <br />Once upon a time a clan of meerkats lived in the Kalahari, a region in southern Africa. After years of steady growth, a drought has sharply reduced the clan’s resources, and deadly vulture attacks 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!”<br /> <br />So Nadia, a bright and adventurous meerkat, hits the road in search of new ideas to help her trou­bled clan. She discovers a much smaller group that operates very differently, with much more teamwork and agility. These meerkats have developed innova­tive solutions to find food and evade the vultures. But not everything in this small clan is as perfect as it seems at first. <br /> <br />Can Nadia figure out how to combine the best of both worlds—a large, disciplined, well-managed clan and a small, informal, inspiring clan—before it’s too late? <br /> <br />This book distills Kotter’s decades of experi­ence and award-winning research to reveal why organizations rise and fall, and how they can rise again in the face of adversity.</p><br /><br /><br /><i>From the Hardcover edition.</i>