About Adizes

ADIZES IN THE NEWS
ADIZES INSTITUTE
ADIZES PROGRAMS
THE ADIZES GRADUATE SCHOOL
ADIZES CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS
ADIZES ASSOCIATES
ADIZES PUBLICATIONS

Dr. Ichak Adizes has a worldwide reputation as an innovator in organizational transformation. The Adizes Institute has been facilitating corporate change since 1975 through the Adizes Methodology. It has assisted over 1,000 organizations in 35 countries, including Fortune 500s and young entrepreneurial companies, nonprofits and government agencies.

Adizes in the News

Ichak Adizes on why some companies age prematurely while others go on to attain peak corporate performance.
Inc. Magazine, November 1, 1998

Even if you really love your company, the day may come when it feels like a trap. But there is a way out -- as John and Gloria McManus learned.
Inc. Magazine, October 1, 1998

Adizes Institute

The Adizes Institute has a worldwide reputation as an innovator in organizational transformation. Founded and directed by Dr. Ichak Adizes, the Institute has been facilitating corporate change since 1975.

The mission of the Adizes Institute is to provide its members with the managerial resources to achieve extraordinary results while developing and nurturing a constructive, cooperative organizational culture. The Institute provides its members with the coaching, education and research for achieving, or maintaining, benchmark positions as leaders of their industries, markets or countries.

The Adizes Institute implements its mission through:
- Adizes Programs
- The Adizes Graduate School
- Adizes Client Organizations
- Adizes Associates

Adizes Programs

The Adizes Program for organizational transformation is delivered by Adizes Associates, a worldwide network of specialists trained in the methodology, group process facilitation and specialized aspects of organizational transformation. The Institute offers a full range of services to deal with accelerated change, including:

- organizational alignment and restructuring
- executive development and management training
- intensive short term interventions for young companies
- certified speakers for programs ranging from 3 hours to 3 days

Through Adizes Programs, companies create an environment of dramatically improved performance levels within a culture of mutual trust and respect.

The Adizes Graduate School

The Adizes Graduate School (AGS) for Organizational Transformation is dedicated to providing the highest quality education in the field of change management, and is committed to creating a broad, interdisciplinary theory base from which new ideas can emerge. Each course explores how change occurs on many levels across disciplines and cultures.

The graduate school requires that each new student acquire a basic understanding of Adizes conceptual foundations and terminology prior to beginning their course of study. Teamwork Plus! meets the entrance requirement for the Masters of Arts Degree Program. Offered in an entirely online format, the program is recognized by the governing body of the State of California. For more information regarding AGS, click here to visit the school website or contact AGS@Adizes.com for a free program catalog.

Adizes and ManagementVitality Client Organizations

The following is a representative selection of worldwide clients of both the Adizes Institute and ManagementVitality:

English Language Market:

Applied Materials Inc. (U.S.)
Progeny Advanced Genetics (U.S.)
Shell Eastern Petroleum Pte Ltd. (Singapore/Australia)

Other Language Markets:

Agder Energi AS (Norway)
Grupo Salinas (Mexico)
Silver & Baryte Ore Mining Co. (Greece)
TELE Greenland (Greenland)

Adizes Associates

United States

Dr. Ichak Adizes
Dan Axelrod, California
Sunil Dovedy, California
Dr. Ivan Gabor, California
Clark Wigley, California
Yagev Ben Itzhak, California

Scandinavia

Lars Dalsager, Denmark

Kjetil Sandermoen, Norway
Stig Frammarsvik, Norway

Bo Jäghult, Sweden
Jan Cederlund, Sweden

Greenland

Jesper Kreiner, Greenland

Balkans

Zvonko Kuzmanovski, Macedonia
Nebojsa Caric, Yugoslavia
Zvezdan Horvat, Yugoslavia
Boris Vukk, Yugoslavia

Israel

Amir Kfir, Israel

South America

Fernando Mourao, Brazil
Carlos Valdesuso, Brazil

Central America

Salvador Rodriguez, El Salvador

Australia

Dr. Ilan Kogus, Australia

Adizes Publications

Books, working papers, videotapes, audio tapes, project papers, and articles are available to support the Institute, its goals, and members' needs. Those materials include Dr. Adizes' books, The Journal of Organizational Transformation, a video series, a multimedia CD/ROM, and audio taped presentations. Some Institute products are available in 22 languages.

Books in English

Managing Corporate Lifecycles
(Prentice Hall, 1999)
by Dr. Ichak Adizes

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.
$26.00 U.S.
p. 460

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The Pursuit of Prime: Maximize Your Company's Success with the Adizes Program
(The Knowledge Exchange, 1996)

The Pursuit of Prime presents the Adizes Methodology for achieving and maintaining organizational health. Dr. Adizes has taught this method at numerous universities worldwide and in master's and doctoral programs offered by the Adizes Institute. Drawing on his thirty years of applying the principles presented in this book, Dr. Adizes offers common sense and practical advice on how to recognize the danger signs and abnormal problems associated with the various stages of the corporate life cycle and, most importantly, how to turn normal problems into opportunities.
$25.00 U.S.
p.282

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Mastering Change: The Power of Mutual Trust and Respect in Personal Life, Family Life, Business and Society.
(Adizes Institute, 1992)

This book, written in a conversational format with easy-to-understand graphics, presents a tested method for masterning change, whether in personal life, family life, business or society. In short chapters that are profound, yet easy to follow, Dr. Adizes conveys his method of understanding the dynamics of change.
$25.00. U.S.
p.235

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How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis: Diagnosis and Treatment of Management Problems
(Adizes Institute, 1979)
by Dr. Ichak Adizes

The author, one of America's foremost authorities on organizational transformation, presents a new approach on how to manage by recognizing that management is too complicated a process for any one individual to carry out all the roles required. Each role requires a distinct style -- a pattern of behavior which predictably occurs in response to specific situations. The roles encompassed by the managerial process are in conflict at any given time. Although a person can perform all of those roles over time, no one person can perform them all simultaneously. Dr. Adizes presents a systematic approach for diagnosing mismanagement and offers strategies for treating it.
$25.00 U.S.
p.280

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