Ichak Adizes

Ichak Kalderon Adizes ( ) is a global management consultant, academic, and author known for contributing to organizational development and corporate lifecycles.

He is the founder and CEO of th
Adizes Institute
where he developed the Adizes Symbergetic Methodology.

This approach has been applied across various organizations, from startups to multinational corporations, to facilitate rapid change without destructive conflict and optimize performance.

Early life

Ichak Adizes is an Israeli-American. He was born in North Macedonia. As a Jewish child during World War II, he hid as a Muslim for protection in Albania. The story was documented in a film entitled ''I Want To Remember, He Wants To Forget''.

In 1948, Adizes moved with his family to Israel, where he served in the Israel Defense Forces. After completing his undergraduate education, he moved to the United States in 1963, where he obtained a doctorate degree in business from Columbia University.

Career

From 1967 to 1982 Adizes was a tenured professor at UCLA, then at Stanford, Tel Aviv University, Hebrew University and Columbia University's executive programs.

Adizes founded the Adizes Institute, which is based in Santa Barbara, California.Donelan, Charles (February 16, 2012
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''Santa Barbara Independent''. Retrieved July 1, 2019. He is well known in the corporate world for developing the PAEI management model in early 1970s, that categorizes managers into four key roles Producer, Administrator, Entrepreneur and Integrator.

Adizes was named as one of the top communicators in the world alongside Pope Francis, Dalai Lama, Angela Merkel as per the 2017 Holmes Report.

Bibliography

Adizes has authored several books on corporate management:

* Corporate Lifecycles: How and why Corporations Grow and Die and what to Do about it
* The Pursuit of Prime
* Mastering Change – Introduction to Organizational Therapy
*The Ideal Executive
*Managing Corporate Lifecycles: How organizations Grow, Age and Die
*Management/Mismanagement Styles
*How to solve the Mismanagement Crisis
*The Ideal Executive
*Leading the Leaders
*How to Manage in times of Crisis
*From Stuckness to Growth
*The Power of Opposites
*Conversations with CEOs

Personal life

Adizes is married to Nurit Manne Adizes. They have six children and live in Carpinteria, California. He plays the accordion.

Children

Atalia Omer, Topaz Adizes, Shoham Adizes, Nimrod Omer, Cnaan Hamburger, Sapphire Adizes.

References

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Jewish American economists
Jewish American non-fiction writers
American company founders
Business writers
Israeli emigrants to the United States
Living people
Macedonian businesspeople
Macedonian non-fiction writers
American male non-fiction writers
American management consultants
People from Carpinteria, California
UCLA Anderson School of Management faculty
1937 births
21st-century American Jews
21st-century American male writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Macedonian Jews