![]() Now, if you’re a successful leader, you won’t need me to tell you that having a good team is essential. Having to accept that change is coming is scary, so be present, be available and invite people to engage. Instilling a sense of urgency will prevent your team from becoming complacent. You need to accept reality quickly, and help your team accept it too. When you’re facing your own version of an iceberg, you can’t afford to stick your head in the sand. And Louis knew that among those ideas, there would be a solution. They shared their fears and worries with him but also their ideas. He put Fred’s iceberg model in a community space where everyone could examine it, and he made a point of listening to the penguins who came to take a look. When he told the colony about their melting iceberg, he didn’t sugar-coat the truth. Louis knew that to survive this catastrophe, they were going to need as much buy-in and brain-power as possible. Even though not all the leaders agreed with him, he decided to call a community meeting, to tell the colony that they had two months to find a solution. If they did nothing and penguins died when the iceberg broke apart, blood would be on their flippers. But Alice reminded Louis that the colony would hold him – and all the leaders – accountable if Fred was right. Some of the other leaders resisted, saying Fred couldn’t prove his theory and claiming he was just fear-mongering. Winter was two months away that water would freeze for sure and when it did, the expanding ice inside the iceberg would shatter it to pieces.įred’s presentation was compelling – he’d even made a model of the iceberg, complete with a lift-off lid to show the hollow inside. The sea had filled the hollow, which was a major problem. ![]() This observant young bird had discovered a huge hollow inside their iceberg, where the snow had melted away. So, he relented and invited this young Fred to the meeting.ĭespite his reservations – there was already so much to get through during those meetings – Louis approached Fred’s presentation the way he approached everything: calmly, openly and willing to listen.įred’s presentation shocked him. But Alice was one of those ‘dog with a bone types’ – not that Louis knew much about dogs. Alice kept insisting that Louis invite a random young penguin to give a presentation at the next Council meeting – some doom and gloom story. He was dedicated to his work, which is why it took him a while to pay proper attention to his fellow leader Alice. Along with nine other leaders, he managed the wellbeing of his 300-strong flock – everything from squabbles between neighbours to leopard seal threats. It had beautiful, towering walls of packed snow that sheltered the colony from winter storms, and seas filled with delicious fish. ![]() Louis the penguin lived on an iceberg which had been his home, and the home of his ancestors, for countless generations. If you were an emperor penguin living in Antarctica, your version of this scenario would be a little different. But sometimes, leaders find themselves staring catastrophe in the face: a major breakdown of infrastructure a product line made redundant by the sudden appearance of a new competitor the realization that the knowledge your company is running on is outdated and irrelevant. The option between radically overhauling your organization or pressing on with business as usual seems like a no-brainer. No one enjoys hearing that they’re teetering on the edge of disaster.
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