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Copyright © 2005, 2017 by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber

Foreword copyright © 2005 by Spencer Johnson

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Originally published by St. Martin’s Press

L IBRARY OF C ONGRESS C ATALOGING-IN- P UBLIC ATION D ATA

Names: Kotter, John P., 1947– author. | Rathgeber, Holger, author.

Title: Our iceberg is melting : changing and succeeding under any conditions / John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber.

Description: New edition. | New York : Portfolio, 2016. | “First published in the United States by John Kotter and Holger Rathgeber under the title Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Adverse Conditions .” | Revised edition of the authors’ Our iceberg is melting, 2006.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015040526 (print) | LCCN 2015047717 (ebook) | ISBN 9780399563911 (hardback) | ISBN 9780399563928 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Organizational change. | Organizational effectiveness. | Penguins—Fiction. | BISAC: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational. | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management.

Classification: LCC HD58.8 .K672 2016 (print) | LCC HD58.8 (ebook) | DDC 650.1—dc23

LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015040526