Change Management Expert and Acclaimed Author
Dr. Ichak Adizes has created a unique philosophy on how to lead: Successful Change without Destructive Conflict. Supported through his books and manuals, which are easy reading for the layman, his philosophy and methodology are applicable to personal life, family life, business and society. Dr. Adizes addresses many issues that are critical to our future, both individually and collectively.
Dr. Adizes introduced his philosophy in one of his early books - How to Solve the Mismanagement Crisis. This book was translated into 22 languages and became a bestseller in several countries. The content is taught in nearly every school of social sciences in the universities of Israel, Denmark, Sweden, and Yugoslavia, among others, and the book is still in print in the United States 25 years after its initial publication. As he continued to further develop his philosophy, Dr. Adizes wrote and published an additional seven books, which have been extensively translated and published in more than 50 editions. Dr. Adizes classic work, Corporate Lifecycles, was selected as one of the 10 Best Business Books by The Library Journal.
Awarded his Ph.D. by Columbia University, Dr. Adizes has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Hebrew University (Jerusalem), Tel Aviv University, Stanford University and Columbia University. He also 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. He is Academic Dean of the Adizes Graduate School for the study of Leadership and Change, which he established in 1994.
Dr. Adizes lectures in four languages and has spoken in more than 48 countries to an average audience of about 1,000 executives. Dr. Adizes work and writing have been featured in leading journals and newspapers, including Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, The New York Times, The London Financial Times, Investor Relations Daily, Nation's Business and World Executive's Digest. Dr. Ichak Adizes' lectures include topics such as Corporate Lifecycles, Making the Transition from Entrepreneurial to Professional Management, Structuring the Company for Success, Building Competitive Advantage Through Change, and Merging Clashing Cultures. Dr. Adizes is one of the world's leading experts on improving the performance of business and government by making fundamental changes without the chaos and destructive conflict that plague many efforts. Over the past 35 years he has worked with some of the largest commercial organizations in the world and has consulted to many heads of state. As an advisor to governments, Dr. Adizes has consulted or lectured to the Prime Ministers or cabinets of Israel, Sweden, Greece, Brazil, Ghana, Iceland, Mexico, Macedonia and others. Dr. Ichak Adizes is the Founder and CEO of the Adizes Institute, which is a highly specialized change management organization that offers its services through offices in the USA and around the world.
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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.
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.
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.
How to Make the Transition 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.
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