The Adizes blog, which is posted at least once a week on the Adizes Institute website (http://www.adizes.com/blog/?cat=1) and sent by e-mail to thousands of subscribers, began life in 2003 as a monthly column called “Insights.”
They were, literally, insights, rather than the products of scientific research. I dared to say what I thought. In doing so, I opened myself up to criticism.
And that is what I got: Many people wrote to say they disagreed with one or more of my observations or conclusions. But they kept reading, because what I wrote made them think. And that is exactly what I set out to achieve.
I am neither a family therapist nor a psychiatrist. Nevertheless, it has not escaped me that my theories of management and change can also be productive when applied to personal and family life. Whether the subject is meditation, divorce, or addiction (to food, to technology, or to work itself), what happens in the private realm often affects the professional realm, and vice versa. I decided to write down the insights that occurred to me about personal life.
Once these essays were published on my website (http://www.adizes.com/blog/, in light of the response from my readers, I often rethought the essays, re-edited or rewrote them, and also updated the ones that needed it. So here, in that somewhat changed form, are my thoughts as they evolved at the beginning of the 21st century, as I witnessed changes—and their unintended consequences—occurring in families all over the world.
In particular, these Insights offer a fascinating close-up of how people in developed countries, as well as countries in transition, are dealing with the phenomenon of globalization in their personal and family lives.
I hope these Insights will stir debate.
— Ichak Kalderon Adizes, Ph.D.
Within the book, you will learn:
• Recommendations for how to manage during times of crisis and what companies must do in order to survive times of crisis,
• Methods to avoid the common mistakes companies make during times of crises,
• The importance of analyzing and changing your organization’s structure according to a changing environment,
• How to deal with extremely rapid change in business and create a sustainable internal culture.
• The two vital things that all companies must preserve to keep your business alive during times of crises.
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In his newest book, Managing Corporate Lifecycles, Dr. Ichak Adizes carries forward the analysis of corporate birth, development and decline pioneered in his 1988 classic, Corporate Lifecycles: How and Why Corporations Grow and Die and What to Do About It.
Offering many fresh insights and refinements to his powerful tools for enhancing organizational problem solving capability, the book is a practical guide for companies on the path to Prime -- the balance of creativity and control required for maximum efficiency.
Bringing readers up-to-date on his theory and practice, Dr. Adizes presents practical strategies for achieving Prime while avoiding the normal problems of growth. He offers proactive measures for maintaining focus and vision, nurturing a climate of mutual trust and respect and avoiding the onset of aging in corporate structures. With Dr. Adizes´ strategies to anticipate and ease the normal, predictable problems of growth, every organization can reach Prime -- and stay there.
The book addresses many issues which are critical to our future, both individually and collectively -- what to do about change, why conflict is necessary, how to make quality decisions, and how to create mutual trust and respect in the company, the home and in society -- to name only a few.
Dr. Adizes’ premise, developed in this book, is that the ideal leader, manager, or executive—ideal in the sense that he can fulfill by himself all the roles necessary for the long-and short-term effectiveness and efficiency of an organization—does not and cannot exist. And that is the problem with contemporary management literature: it presents what the executive should do, (because that is what the organization needs) even though no one can do it. All the books and textbooks 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. We are all barking up the wrong tree, spending millions of dollars to train and develop executives based on faulty logic.
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This book was written to help you discover your basic management style and compensate for your weaknesses so you can work better with others – subordinates, peers, and those you report to – whose management styles are different from your own. It does this by providing prescriptions to follow for each management style, notes from the battleground based on my experiences in coaching executives around the world for the past 30 years.
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"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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