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Managing Corporate Lifecycles: Complete Edition
In his breakthrough book 'Corporate Lifecycles', Dr. Ichak Adizes, one of the premier authorities on organizational transformation, traced the typical corporate path from inception to decline, revealing patterns of growth and change common to businesses as varied as Bank of America to Domino's Pizza.
Now, in 'Managing Corporate Lifecycles - The Complete Kindle Edition', he brings readers up-to-date on his theory and practice by combining the content of Managing Corporate Lifecycles: Volumes I and II in one convenient download. This book guides your company to PRIME with speed and efficiency, covering the different stages of a company lifecycle such as Courtship, Infancy, the Wild Go-Go Years, and Adolescence. The Complete Edition also reveals strategies for avoiding the typical downhill path - starting with the Signs of Aging (such as Risk Avoidance), the descent into protocol dominated Aristocracy; and culminating in the final stages of decay: Recrimination, Bureaucracy, and Death.
In addition, Dr. Adizes provides powerful tools you can use to enhance organizational problem-solving capability, eliminate the structural causes of corporate aging, and raise a healthy organization. Through his unique viewpoint and methodology, Dr. Adizes teaches the techniques to revolutionize your business, not just temporarily, but opens the way for your organization to thrive - indefinitely!
Now, in 'Managing Corporate Lifecycles - The Complete Kindle Edition', he brings readers up-to-date on his theory and practice by combining the content of Managing Corporate Lifecycles: Volumes I and II in one convenient download. This book guides your company to PRIME with speed and efficiency, covering the different stages of a company lifecycle such as Courtship, Infancy, the Wild Go-Go Years, and Adolescence. The Complete Edition also reveals strategies for avoiding the typical downhill path - starting with the Signs of Aging (such as Risk Avoidance), the descent into protocol dominated Aristocracy; and culminating in the final stages of decay: Recrimination, Bureaucracy, and Death.
In addition, Dr. Adizes provides powerful tools you can use to enhance organizational problem-solving capability, eliminate the structural causes of corporate aging, and raise a healthy organization. Through his unique viewpoint and methodology, Dr. Adizes teaches the techniques to revolutionize your business, not just temporarily, but opens the way for your organization to thrive - indefinitely!
629 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 2, 2017
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About the author
Ichak Kalderon Adizes
43 books136 followersIchak Adizes is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s leading management experts. Over the course of more than 40 years, he has developed and refined a proprietary methodology that enables corporations, governments, and complex organizations to accomplish exceptional results and manage accelerated change without destructive conflicts. Leadership Excellence Journal named him one of the Top 30 Thought Leaders in the United States, and Executive Excellence Journal put him on their list of the Top 30 Consultants in America.
In recognition of his contributions to management theory and practice, Dr. Adizes has received 14 honorary doctorates, is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management and has been made an honorary citizen of two Eastern European countries. He also received the 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is awarded by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation for contributions to humanity.
Dr. Adizes has served as a tenured faculty member at UCLA; was a visiting professor at Stanford, Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities; and taught at the Columbia University Executive Program. He also served as Dean of the Adizes Graduate School for the Study of Leadership and Change, and is currently an academic advisor to the Graduate School of Management of the Academy of National Economy of the Russian Federation.
Dr. Adizes is founder and president of the Adizes Institute, based in Santa Barbara, California, an international consulting company that applies the Adizes Methodology for clients in the public and private sectors. In 2011, the Adizes Institute was ranked as one of the top ten consulting organizations in the United States by Leadership Excellence Journal.
In addition to consulting to prime ministers and cabinet-level officers throughout the world, Dr. Adizes has worked with a wide variety of companies ranging from startups to members of the Fortune 50. He lectures in four languages, and has appeared before well over 100,000 executives in more than 50 countries.
He has written 14 books that have been published in 24 languages. His book, Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (subsequently revised, expanded and republished as Managing Corporate Lifecycles) was named one of the Ten Best Business Books by Library Journal.
Dr. Adizes lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his family. In his leisure time he enjoys folk dancing, playing the accordion, and practicing meditation.
In recognition of his contributions to management theory and practice, Dr. Adizes has received 14 honorary doctorates, is a Fellow of the International Academy of Management and has been made an honorary citizen of two Eastern European countries. He also received the 2010 Ellis Island Medal of Honor, which is awarded by the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations Foundation for contributions to humanity.
Dr. Adizes has served as a tenured faculty member at UCLA; was a visiting professor at Stanford, Tel Aviv and Hebrew Universities; and taught at the Columbia University Executive Program. He also served as Dean of the Adizes Graduate School for the Study of Leadership and Change, and is currently an academic advisor to the Graduate School of Management of the Academy of National Economy of the Russian Federation.
Dr. Adizes is founder and president of the Adizes Institute, based in Santa Barbara, California, an international consulting company that applies the Adizes Methodology for clients in the public and private sectors. In 2011, the Adizes Institute was ranked as one of the top ten consulting organizations in the United States by Leadership Excellence Journal.
In addition to consulting to prime ministers and cabinet-level officers throughout the world, Dr. Adizes has worked with a wide variety of companies ranging from startups to members of the Fortune 50. He lectures in four languages, and has appeared before well over 100,000 executives in more than 50 countries.
He has written 14 books that have been published in 24 languages. His book, Corporate Lifecycles: How Organizations Grow and Die and What to Do About It (subsequently revised, expanded and republished as Managing Corporate Lifecycles) was named one of the Ten Best Business Books by Library Journal.
Dr. Adizes lives in Santa Barbara, California, with his family. In his leisure time he enjoys folk dancing, playing the accordion, and practicing meditation.
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November 12, 2022
Brilliant book and thesis.
I would normally rate this book 5 stars, given the amount of inputs I got from it.
The reason for 4 stars is just that I think its too extensive and too demanding - meaning that the writing type makes it hard and time consuming to read.
Besides this, the book does provide some framework to interpret an organizations phase in the lifecycle and what I truly believe it supports is on the organizational structuring needs and solutions.
Definitely worth reading.
I would normally rate this book 5 stars, given the amount of inputs I got from it.
The reason for 4 stars is just that I think its too extensive and too demanding - meaning that the writing type makes it hard and time consuming to read.
Besides this, the book does provide some framework to interpret an organizations phase in the lifecycle and what I truly believe it supports is on the organizational structuring needs and solutions.
Definitely worth reading.
Displaying 1 of 2 reviews