Ichak Adizes
Ichak Adizes is the founder of the Adizes Institute, Santa Barbara, California and creator of the proprietary methodology for managing change that bears his name. He is the Dean of the Adizes Graduate School for the Study of Leadership and Change, and the Academic Advisor to IBS, the Graduate School of Management of the Russian Academy of National Economy.
Adizes Institute is a leading consulting firm with offices world wide ranked by the Executive Excellence among the top ten organizations for leadership development. The Adizes Program for leading organizations to Prime performance has been used successfully worldwide by organizations ranging from start ups and non for profit to Fortune 100.
George M. Gendron, former editor of the Inc. Magazine said of him: “Just about everything I know about managing and leading an organization I learned from two men: Peter Drucker and Ichak Adizes…”
Dr. Adizes consults to business and political leaders throughout the world on managing change without destructive conflict. Executive Excellence ranked Dr. Adizes 29th in 2005 and 27th List of the Top 100 Leadership Consultants.
He lectures in four languages and has spoken in more than fifty countries. His work and writing have been featured in leading journals and newspapers, including: Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The New York Times, and London Financial Times.
He is the author of ten books that have been translated into 26 languages and published in 50 editions. His book, Managing Corporate LifeCycles (1999), a revised and expanded edition of Corporate LifeCycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It was selected as one of the 10 Best Business Books by The Library Journal. His other works include: Self-Management (1975); How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis (1979); Mastering Change (1992); Pursuit of Prime (1996), The Ideal Executive –Why You Cannot be One; (2004) Management/Mismanagement Styles (2004), Leading the Leaders - How to Enrich Your Style of Management and Handle People Whose Style is Different From Yours (2004).
Awarded his Ph.D. by Columbia University, Dr. Adizes has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, Stanford University, taught at Columbia University NY Executive Programs and served in a tenured position at the John E. Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA, where among other achievements he established the Management of the Arts MBA program, first in the world. He has given visiting lectures at twenty different leading Universities around the world.
Dr. Ichak Adizes has been granted three Doctor Honoris Causa, (Honorable Doctorate) (Five more granted, to be awarded in 2007 and 2008), the last one from the Russian Academy of National Economy, a citizenship of Macedonia granted by special decree of the Prime Minister and a honorary rank of Major by the Israeli Defense Forces. He is Fellow Academic of the International Academy of Management. He is married to Nurit Manne Adizes, they have six children and live in Santa Barbara, California.
Dr Adizes plays the accordion and enjoys a sing along.
MOST REQUESTED TOPICS:
Merging Clashing Cultures
Despite the popularity of mergers and acquisitions, their history is replete with dramatic disappointments and failures. Few mergers and acquisitions turn out as well as expected. Deals that look great on paper often prove unsatisfactory for everyone involved. This lecture tells how to predict some of these problems before they arise. It also discusses critical post-merger integration issues and the tools needed to ensure a smooth integration process.
Preparing for Excellence
Is your Organization Structured for Success?
Learn how organizational structure affects strategy and transparency. Analyze your organization’s structure and identify the problems it is creating. Discover the right way to structure your organization for success. Incredible insights from our accumulated knowledge in structuring organizations all over the world will be presented.
Communicating with People WHOSE Styles ARE Different
Explore the different styles of behavior we exhibit and how we can identify, understand and communicate with someone whose style is different from our own. The information presented has take-home value that can be immediately applied to everyday life; it is relevant to relationships within an organization as well as personal relationships within a family or community.
Creating and Maintaining Constructive Conflict
Conflict is not only natural, but it is necessary and desirable. However, it is important to distinguish between constructive and destructive conflict, and to learn how to create an environment in which the conflict is productive. In this session, the role of mutual trust and respect will be explored as an avenue for creating that constructive conflict, and the concepts of organizational synergy and symbiosis will be presented.
How to Build Your Management Team
No one is a perfect manager or leader. What is needed is a complementary team. Participants will learn how to choose team players and how to build a climate in which all can grow and prosper. The important issues of mutual respect, balance, flexibility, maturity and ability to harness conflict are introduced and explored.
Corporate Lifecycles
How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It
Corporations, like living organisms, experience predictable patterns of behavior as they grow and develop. They are faced with specific transitional problems as they progress through the various stages of their lifecycle. How leadership addresses these issues and makes the changes needed for a healthy transition determines the success or failure of an organization. Participants will discover which of the transitional problems encountered are normal, abnormal or fatal and how to deal with them in order to accelerate growth.
How to Make the Transistion From Entrepreneurship to Professional Management Effectively
This lecture details the strategies for overcoming the greatest challenge growing organizations must surmount in order to reach Prime: making the transition from entrepreneurial management to professional management. Highly applicable and practical solutions for the age-old problem of the founders trap are presented. Filled with tremendous take home value, it is a must for growing organizations.
How to Enable Transparency Without Losing Control
How can total transparency be created in a complex organization? How can you simultaneously empower your people and control your organization? How do you make people totally accountable? How do you implement the complex “think global, act local” mantra in multinational companies? The answer to these questions can be found in the practical model of the transparent organization.
How to Rejuvenate an Aging Organization
What causes an organization to age and lose its “entrepreneurial edge”? What are the effective ways to rejuvenate an aging organization? Participants will learn techniques to create a fertile environment for the entrepreneurial spirit to resurface. Issues dealing with vision, strategy, structure and decision making processes will be presented.
How To Build A Common Vision for Your Organization
This session explores the art and science of defining an organization’s mission as a team process. The goal is to establish an enterprise-wide sense of mission and to communicate a clear and compelling vision of the company’s enduring purpose, core values, goals, and key success strategies whose implementation has unanimous commitment.
How to Diagnose Organizational Problems and Their Causes
This session teaches how to distinguish problems that are normal from those that are abnormal in any organization. A powerful model that differentiates causes, symptoms and manifestations is also explored, one that reveals which problems must be addressed before they further inhibit the success of the organization and which problems can simply be monitored.
PRODUCTS:
Corporate Lifecycles: How & Why Corporations Grow & Die & What to Do About It
This book is an acknowledged as a classic in management theory and practice.
The Pursuit of Prime
Mastering Change ... The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family, Business and Society
