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Over the past 30 years, Dr. Ichak Adizes has written more than a dozen books filled with keen insights about management and organizational transformation. They have been translated into 26 languages and are sold worldwide. Several of his books are considered classics in their field, and have been chosen as required reading for management courses at major universities.
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Leading the Leaders
Management/Mismanagement Styles
The Ideal Executive
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How to Manage in Times of Crisis
Dr. Adizes latest book, 'How to Manage in Times of Crisis' is an informative, easy to read guide to help managers and organizations deal with crises.
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How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis
In this book, Dr. Adizes presents his approach to management by recognizing that the process is too complicated for any one individual to simultaneously perform all of the necessary roles. Readers may be reassured to discover that the so-called "perfect manager" exists only in textbooks.
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Industrial Democracy: Yugoslav Style
First published in 1971, this book was one of Dr. Adizes's first books. The book presents case studies of two Yugoslav comapanies which were observed in operation during the spring of 1967.
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Leading the Leaders
This book was written by Dr. Adizes to help individuals discover their basic management style and work better with others whose management styles are different from their own. It provides specific actions to follow and "notes from the battlefield" based on his 30 years of experiences in coaching executives around the world.
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Management/Mismanagement Styles
"Management/Mismanagement Styles" is Dr. Adizes' latest book on Management Styles. It takes a much deeper and extensive look at Dr. Adizes' Management Styles first introduced in the classic "How To Solve the Mismanagement Crisis."
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Managing Corporate Lifecycles:
How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and
What to Do About It
In this book, Dr. Ichak Adizes carries forward the analysis of corporate birth, development and decline. Offering many fresh insights and powerful tools for problem solving, it is a practical guide for companies on the path to Prime.
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Mastering Change:
The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family Life, Business and Society
Written in a conversational format with easy-to-understand graphics, this book presents a tested method for mastering change in personal life, family life, business, and society. In short, profound chapters Dr. Adizes addresses issues including: why conflict is necessary, how to make quality decisions, and how to create mutual trust and respect.
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The Pursuit of Prime:
Maximize Your Company's Success with the Adizes Program
This book presents the Adizes methodology for achieving and maintaining organizational health. In it, Dr. Adizes offers practical advice on how to recognize the dangers and abnormal problems associated with the various stages of the corporate lifecycle, and how to turn normal problems into opportunities.
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Self Management:
New Dimensions to Democracy
First Published in 1975, this book was developed from a seminar at the center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, in Santa Barbara, California, which focused on the participation of workers in decisionmaking as a means to democratize society, provide for economic growth, and improve the quality of life. This book was edited by both Ichak Adizes and Elisabeth Mann Borgese.
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The Ideal Executive
Dr. Adizes' premise in this book is that the ideal leader, manager, or executive does not and cannot exist. All the books that try to teach us to be perfect managers, leaders, or executives are based on the erroneous assumption that such a goal is possible. This book explains why it is not.
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